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John Constable

Yarmouth Jetty, 1822

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 31.7 × 50.8 cm (12 1/2 × 20 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Carter Stevenson in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

2016.115.1

Artists / Makers

John Constable (artist) British, 1776 - 1837

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left: John Constable pinxt. 1822.

Provenance

John Gibbons [1777-1851], Corbyn's Hall, Staffordshire, and London;[1] by inheritance to his son, the Reverend Benjamin Gibbons [1824-1894], Waresley House and Waresley Court, Worcestershire, and London;[2] (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 26 May 1894, no. 6); purchased by (Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London) for Sir Charles Clow Tennant, 1st bt. [1823-1906], The Glen, near Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, Scotland; by descent in the family to his great-grandson, Colin Christopher Paget Tennant, 3rd baron Glenconner [1926-2010], The Glen;[3] sold November 1975 through (Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London) to Mrs. Ruth Carter Stevenson [1923-2013], Fort Worth; bequest to NGA.[4]

[1] Gibbons was an ironmaster and art patron from Edgbaston near Birmingham, and he had a gallery specially built for his collection at his London home, 16 Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park. See: Kathryn Moore Heleniak, "John Gibbons and William Mulready: The Relationship between a Patron and a Painter," The Burlington Magazine 124, no. 948 (March 1982): 136-141.

[2] Rev. Gibbons lent the painting to the 1890 Winter Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

[3] The 3rd baron's father, Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd baron Glenconner (1899-1983), was still living when the painting was sold to NGA's donor, and the 2nd baron would have been the Lord Glenconner who lent the painting to a 1951 exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. However, documents in NGA curatorial files given by the donor all name Colin Tennant as the painting's owner.

[4] At the time of her 1975 purchase of the painting, the NGA donor was married to J. Lee Johnson III. She married Johnson in 1946 and they were divorced in 1978; she married John "Jack" Stevenson in 1983. In 1991 Mrs. Stevenson promised the painting as a bequest to the NGA.

Associated Names

Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Gibbons, Benjamin Reverend
Gibbons, John
Stevenson, Ruth Carter, Mrs.
Tennant, Charles Clow, 1st bt., Sir
Tennant, Christopher Grey, 2nd baron Glenconner
Tennant, Colin Christopher Paget, 3rd baron Glenconner

Exhibition History

1823: British Institution, London, 1823, no. 148.

1890: Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters, and by Deceased Masters of the British School; including a collection of drawings and models by Alfred Stevens. Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1890, no. 52, as Sea-Piece, with Jetty.

1897: Twenty Masterpieces of the English School, Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London, 1897, no. 3.

1903: Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and Deceased Masters of the British School. Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1903, no. 41.

1951: The First Hundred Years of the Royal Academy, 1769-1868. Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1951-1952, no. 206, as Yarmouth Pier.

1954: Dutch Painting and the East Anglian School, Castle Museum, Norwich, 1954, no. 16.

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, unnumbered catalogue, color repro.

2009: From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 2009-2010.

Bibliography

1902: Holmes, Charles John. Constable and His Influence on Landscape Painting. Westminster, 1902: 246.

1937: Leslie, Charles Robert, and Andrew Shirley. Memoirs of the life of John Constable, R.A., by C.R. Leslie, R.A., edited and enlarged by the Hon. Andrew Shirley. London, 1937: lxix, 137, 142, pl. 79.