Hadleigh Castle (painting)
Hadleigh Castle | |
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Artist | John Constable |
Year | 1829 |
Type | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 121.9 cm × 164.5 cm (48.0 in × 64.8 in) |
Location | Yale Center for British Art, New Haven |
Hadleigh Castle is an oil painting by the English painter John Constable, created in 1829.
John Constable visited Hadleigh Castle in 1814 and made a drawing of the castle. This he developed into a full-sized oil sketch in preparation for a finished painting, executed in 1829 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in the same year. The sketch is currently displayed at the Tate Gallery, London, while the finished painting now hangs in the Yale Center for British Art at New Haven, United States.[1] Constable's painting, "one of his most monumental works" according to art historians Tammis Groft and Mary Mackay, shows Hadleigh Castle as a decaying man-made structure, succumbing to the elemental power of nature.[2] The piece is also especially representative of English Romanticism in the nineteenth century as evidenced by spiritual presence of nature dominating the subject of the castle, as well as the rough brushstrokes enhancing this intensity.[3]
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- Groft, Tammis Kane and Mary Alice Mackay. (1998) Albany Institute of History & Art: 200 years of collecting. New York: Hudsdon Hills Press. ISBN 978-1-55595-101-6.
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