Wivenhoe Park

This object’s media is free and in the public domain. Read our full Open Access policy for images. A pleasant sense of ease and harmony pervades this landscape of almost photographic clarity. The large areas of brilliant sunshine and cool shade, the rambling line of the fence, and the beautiful balance of trees, meadow, and river are evidence of the artist's creative synthesis of the actual site. The precision of Constable's brushwork, seen in the animals, birds, and people, lends importance to these smaller details. Constable was a native of Suffolk, the county just north of Essex. His deep, consuming attachment to the landscape of... This video provides an ASL description of John Constable's painting, Wivenhoe Park, Essex . Constable's England, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1983, no. 27, color repro. Constable and Wivenhoe Park: Reality and Vision, University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester, 2000, no. 4, repro. Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six-foot Paintings, Tate Britain, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, 2006-2007, no. 17, repro. Roberts, William. Pictures in the Collection of P.A.B. Widener at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: British and Modern French Schools , Philadelphia, 1915: unpaginated, repro. Works of Art from the Widener Collection . Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 5. Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art . New York, 1944: 146, color repro. Favorite Paintings from the National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. . New York, 1946: 65-67, color repro. Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection . National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 94, repro. Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington . New York, 1956: 48, repro. The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections . Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 9, repro. Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 238, repro. Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art . 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:364, color repro. Cooke, Hereward Lester. Painting Lessons from the Great Masters. London, 1968: 42, fig. 28, color repro. opp. 102. National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations . Washington, 1968: 22, repro. Taylor, Basil. Constable: Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours. London, 1973: 29, pl. 51. Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington . New York, 1975: no. 593, color repro. Hoozee, Robert. L'opera completa di Constable. Milan, 1979: 108, no. 218, repro.; color pls. xx-xxi. Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington . Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 406, no. 578, color repro. Reynolds, Graham. The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable. 2 vols. New Haven and London, 1984: 1:4-5, no. 17.4; 2:color pl. 6. Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries . The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 29-32, color repro. 31. National Gallery of Art, Washington . National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 155, repro. Hoving, Thomas. Greatest Works of Art of Western Civilization . New York, 1997, p. 192-193, repro. Fiero, Gloria K. The Humanistic Tradition: Romanticism, Realism, and the Nineteenth-Century World , 1998: 1, repro. Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection . Washington and New York, 2004: 342-343, no. 276, color repro. Marshall, Nancy Rose. City of Gold and Mud: Painting Victorian London . New Haven, 2012: 227, fig. 196. Robinson, Duncan. Pen & Pencil: Visual and Literary Culture in Georgian England . London, 2025: 240, 3