Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead

The Cleveland Museum of Art · Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

Museum

Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead

1828

ArtistJohn Constable (British, 1776–1837)

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Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: Framed: 89 x 105.5 x 11.5 cm (35 1/16 x 41 9/16 x 4 1/2 in.); Unframed: 60.6 x 78.1 cm (23 7/8 x 30 3/4 in.)
Classification: Painting
Style: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
Origin: England, 19th century
Institution: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

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Provenance

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1828-1864

Painted by the artist for Henry Hebbert [1783-1864], London, United Kingdom, by descent to his son,...

1864-1894

Henry Hebbert [1814-1893], London, United Kingdom

1894

Cyrus McCormick Jr. [1859-1936], Chicago, IL, .

1958-1959

(Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, NY, 1958 sold to Leggatt Brothers)

1959

(Leggatt Brothers, London, United Kingdom, 1959.

by 1966

Earl of Inchcape, London, United Kingdom by 1966.

1972

(E. V. Thaw & Co., New York. NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

Source provenance text

Painted by the artist for Henry Hebbert [1783-1864], London, United Kingdom, by descent to his son, Henry Hebbert Henry Hebbert [1814-1893], London, United Kingdom Cyrus McCormick Jr. [1859-1936], Chicago, IL, . (Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, NY, 1958 sold to Leggatt Brothers) (Leggatt Brothers, London, United Kingdom, 1959. Earl of Inchcape, London, United Kingdom by 1966. (E. V. Thaw & Co., New York. NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

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Visions of Landscape: East and West

CMA @ Oberlin (second rotation)

British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020)

Year in Review: 1972

Source exhibition text

Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973). Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). CMA @ Oberlin (second rotation). Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 3-June 5, 2006). British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (1933). Autumn Exhibition. Leggatt Brothers, London, United Kingdom (1961). English Painting 1750-1850. Leggatt Brothers, London, United Kingdom (1963). Englische Malerei der grossen Zeit . Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (October 8-November 6, 1966). La Pittura Inglese de Hogarth a Turner. Palazzo Venezia, Rome, Italy (November 21-December 20, 1966).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

<br>An amateur meteorologist, John Constable was most at home painting meticulously observed cloud formations, weather conditions, and natural light effects. He believed an accurate rendering of these constantly shifting elements could convey his vision of the vitality and magnificence of the English countryside. Working from the summerhouse he rented at Hampstead from 1819–26, Constable painted a landscape focusing more on the dark rain clouds than on the laborers in the foreground, keeping the details of their backbreaking work at a picturesque distance.

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Evidence state

Observed sales: 0 · Comparable Sales: 0 · Provenance: 8 · Exhibitions: 4.

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