Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close
1820
Artist, British, 1776 - 1837
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 57
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 73 x 91 cm (28 3/4 x 35 13/16 in.)
framed: 97.1 x 115.6 x 10.7 cm (38 1/4 x 45 1/2 x 4 3/16 in.) -
Accession
1937.1.108
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Unsold by the artist; (John Constable sale, Messrs. Foster, London, 15-16 May 1838, 2nd day, no. 13, with Glebe Farm); bought by William Hooker Carpenter; (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 16 February 1867, no. 77); bought by Halsted. Sir John Kelk, Bt. [1816-1886], Tedworth, Wiltshire; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 11 March 1899, no. 6); bought by (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London); sold the same day to (Messrs. Lawrie & Co., London); purchased 11 November 1901 by (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); sold 26 January 1903 to (Arthur Tooth & Son, New York); purchased by William K. Bixby, St. Louis, Missouri;[1] sold 8 May 1918 to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased April 1918[2] by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh; deeded to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA.
[1] Bixby lent the painting to a 1911 exhibition at the City Art Museum in St. Louis.
[2] The foregoing information was kindly supplied by M. Knoedler & Co., New York, from its stock books. The discrepancy between Bixby's sale of the picture to Knoedler's on 8 May 1918 and Mellon's purchase of it in April is presumably to be explained by Mellon's prior knowledge of the intended consignment.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1911
"The Home Exhibiton:" A Collection of Paintings owned in St. Louis, City Art Museum, St. Louis, 1911, no. 15, repro.
1991
Constable, Tate Gallery, London, 1991, no. 136, repro.
2002
Constable Le Choix de Lucian Freud, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 2002-2003, no. 168, repro.
2007
Loan for display with permanent collection, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, 2007-2008.
Bibliography
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 43, no. 108, as A View of Salisbury Cathedral.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 241, repro. 13, as A View of Salisbury Cathedral.
1949
Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 122, repro., as A View of Salisburg Cathedral.
1952
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1952: 142, color repro., as A View of Salisbury Cathedral.
1960
Cooke, Hereward Lester. British Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Eight in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 34, color repro., as A View of Salisbury Cathedral.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 322, repro., as A View of Salisbury Cathedral.
1965
Reynolds, Graham. Constable: The Natural Painter. London, 1965: 141, pl. 38.
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 29, as A View of Salisbury Cathedral.
1966
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:366, color repro., as A View of Salisbury Cathedral.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 22, repro., as A View of Salisbury Cathedral.
Cooke, Hereward Lester. Paintings Lessons from the Great Masters. London, 1968: 178, repro., color repro. opposite.
Gandolfo, Giampaolo et al. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Great Museums of the World. New York, 1968: 149-150, color repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 72, repro.
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: no. 595, color repro.
1976
Whittingham, Selby. Constable and Turner at Salisbury. 2d rev. ed. Salisbury, 1976: 48, color repro. (cover).
1979
Hoozee, Robert. L'opera completa di Constable. Milan, 1979: 114, no. 281, 115, repro., color pl. xl.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 408, no. 580, color repro., as A View of Salisbury Cathedral.
Reynolds, Graham. The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable. 2 vols. New Haven and London, 1984: 1:57, no. 20.53; 2:color pl. 177.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 93, repro.
1992
Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 39-41, color repro. 41.
2004
Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 349, no. 280, color repro.
2006
Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six-foot Paintings. Exh. cat. Tate Britain, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino. London, 2006: fig. 54.
2021
Kennicott, Philip and Matthew Cappucci. "Examining the Elements of Breathtaking Art." Washington Post 144, no. 225 (July 18, 2021): E1, E10, color repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20184484