# The White Horse, in John Constable

John Constable painted this in 1818-1819, aged about 42. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> A white horse stands on a barge being poled along the River Stour by two men in red caps, while cows gather at the water’s edge and a cottage nestles among trees under a sky of rolling cloud.

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## The work

- Date: 1818-1819
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 127 x 183 cm (50 x 72 1/16 in.) framed: 164.5 x 219.7 x 17.2 cm (64 3/4 x 86 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942.9.9
- 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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