# Wivenhoe Park, Essex, in 19th-century Britain

John Constable painted this in 1816, aged 40. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> Black and white cows graze beyond a fence, two men haul in a net from a boat near a pair of swans, and a donkey cart crosses a distant bridge, while the brick house of Wivenhoe Park appears through the trees beneath towering summer clouds.

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## The work

- Date: 1816
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 56.1 x 101.2 cm (22 1/16 x 39 13/16 in.) framed: 77.8 x 122.5 x 8.8 cm (30 5/8 x 48 1/4 x 3 7/16 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942.9.10
- 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.

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