# Stoke-by-Nayland, in John Constable

John Constable painted this in 1836, aged 60. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

From the museum's label:

> John Constable produced this full-size oil sketch for an unrealized painting near the end of his life. Its subject—the countryside of Constable's youth in Suffolk, England—was one of the artist's favorites.

_Text from the Art Institute of Chicago._

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## The work

- Date: 1836
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 126 × 169 cm (49 5/8 × 66 1/2 in.); Framed: 170.2 × 212.1 × 16.6 cm (67 × 83 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.4453
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[John Constable](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/john-constable), English, 1776–1837

Constable painted the countryside of his native Suffolk, especially the Stour valley around his father’s mills, with an attention to weather and light new to English art.

3 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [John Constable's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-john-constable?hang=749) (8 works)
- [More Georgian Britain](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/georgian-britain?hang=749) (63 works)
- [19th-century Britain](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/19-britain?hang=749) (40 works)

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