"Willy Lott's Cottage Willy Lott's Cottage is a house in Flatford, East Bergholt, Suffolk, England that features in several John Constable paintings, notably ""The Hay Wain"". The earliest part of the building is sixteenth century. The property is Grade I listed to reflect its importance ""as part of the Flatford Mill group"" and ""its significance in the work of the artist John Constable"". The Cottage was restored in the 1920s after a revival of interest in John Constable's paintings. It has been renamed Willy Lott's House because this is the name Constable used in his paintings. It is owned by"
"of his most iconic paintings, ""Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River)"", and mentioned in the title or is the subject of several others including: ""Flatford Mill from a lock on the river Stour""; ""Flatford Mill from the lock (A water mill)""; ""The Lock"". ""The Hay Wain"", which features Willy Lott's Cottage, was painted from the front of the mill. The mill is located downstream from Bridge Cottage which, along with neighbouring Valley Farm and Willy Lott's Cottage, are leased to the Field Studies Council, a group that uses them as locations for arts, ecology and natural history based courses."
"Salts Mill Salts Mill (sometimes spelled Salt's Mill) is a former textile mill, now an art gallery, shopping centre, and restaurant complex in Saltaire, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It was built by Sir Titus Salt in 1853, and the present-day 1853 Gallery takes its name from the date of the building which houses it. The mill has many paintings by the local artist David Hockney on display and also provides offices for Pace plc. The Mill and surrounding town of Saltaire was financed and built by the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Sir Titus Salt after he observed other textile"
"Constable originally exhibited the finished work with the title ""Landscape: Noon"", suggesting that he envisaged it as belonging to the classical landscape tradition of representing the cycles of nature. Flatford Mill was owned by Constable's father. The house on the left side of the painting belonged to a neighbor, Willy Lott, a tenant farmer, who was said to have been born in the house and never to have left it for more than four days in his lifetime. Willy Lott's Cottage has survived to this day practically unaltered, but none of the trees in the painting exist today. Although ""The"
"Hartford Mill Hartford Mill is a Grade II-listed building located off Block Lane, in the Freehold area of Oldham, UK. It constructed as a cotton-spinning mill in 1907. It was designed by Frederick Whittaker Dixon for the Hartford Mill (Oldham) Company Ltd. It was extended in 1920 and 1924. It was Grade II-listed on 8 March 1993. In 1991, Littlewoods vacated the building, and it has been unoccupied since then. It was significantly damaged by a fire in 2014, and a teenager died after falling through the roof of the building in 2015. It was proposed for demolition in 2018."
"Hartford Mill Hartford Mill is a Grade II-listed building located off Block Lane, in the Freehold area of Oldham, UK. It constructed as a cotton-spinning mill in 1907. It was designed by Frederick Whittaker Dixon for the Hartford Mill (Oldham) Company Ltd. It was extended in 1920 and 1924. It was Grade II-listed on 8 March 1993. In 1991, Littlewoods vacated the building, and it has been unoccupied since then. It was significantly damaged by a fire in 2014, and a teenager died after falling through the roof of the building in 2015. It was proposed for demolition in 2018."
"it was sold to Jonathan Silver, who began a long renovation scheme. The spellings ""Salts Mill"" and ""Salt's Mill"" (that is, with and without an apostrophe) are both commonly used. The former is used consistently by the Salts Mill website and the Saltaire Village website; the latter by ""Visit Bradford"" from the official Bradford Tourist Information service. Both versions are used in the UNESCO World Heritage documentation. http://www.saltaire.org.uk/salts-mill http://roberts-park.org/saltaire-history-timeline-1858-1892/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/work/england/bradford/article_1.shtml Salts Mill Salts Mill (sometimes spelled Salt's Mill) is a former textile mill, now an art gallery, shopping centre, and restaurant complex in Saltaire, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It was"
"remembered in the Wilfrid Wood Gallery at the Stamford Arts Centre and the Wilfrid Wood Hall (the village hall) at Barnack. Wilfrid Wood Wilfrid René Wood (1 December 1888 – 18 February 1976) was a British engraver and watercolourist. He painted urban landscapes of British towns such as Stamford, Lincolnshire. Wilfrid Wood was born in Cheadle Hulme, south of Manchester. His mother was an artist and his father a cutler and surgical instrument maker. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, leaving at 16. He then studied art at Manchester School of Art, and at the Central School of Arts"
"in the mid-19th century, at a time when other artists were creating their impressions of labour, such as Ford Madox Brown's painting ""Work"". He married Sarah Moore on 7 April 1852. After her death in 1861, he married Sarah Ford on 20 June 1863. He had one son and one daughter with each of his wives. He died in Blackburn, Lancashire on 13 June 1893 aged 67. James Sharples (blacksmith) Sharples was born in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, into a large family of thirteen. His father was a blacksmith, as were both of his grandfathers. Sharples had little formal"
"Delaware River near Flatbrookville in Walpack Township where the Flat Brook enters the Delaware at 300 feet above sea level. Haneys Mill is a section of Walpack. A grist mill was built there around 1860. It appears on the Sussex County wall map of that year with a nearby sawmill, a lime kiln, and residences of C. Haney, J.W. Fuller and B.D. Fuller. Serving at various times as a gristmill, a sawmill and a cidermill, the last operator was Jake Haney. The mid-nineteenth century farmhouse of the Haney family also stood nearby. Some of the scenes from the 1933 Ford"
"Alfred Bennett Bamford Major Alfred Bennett Bamford (1857 – 21 October 1939) was an English watercolour painter, known for pictures of Essex. Bamford was born in Romford in 1857. He studied at the private Heatherley School of Art. He was a prolific artist who donoted a large quantity of paintings into public ownership on condition that they were displayed. In 1930 when he moved to Cheshire he gave 150 paintings to Romford. Bamford had been a member of a local voluntary regiment. By 1897 he was an honorary Major. During World War I he was in charge of some prisoners"
"and substituted the figures of the two boys. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1817 under the title ""Scene on a Navigable River"", Constable repainted the tops of the trees and the entire sky afterwards. This was in time for the picture's second showing at the British Institution in January 1818, where it was given the title ""Flatford Mill"". Although he had scraped an income from painting, it was not until 1819 that Constable sold his first important canvas, ""The White Horse"", which led to a series of ""six footers"", as he called his large-scale paintings. Constable never sold the"
"The Mill (Rembrandt) The Mill is a painting by Dutch baroque artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. It is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. For a long time, the attribution to Rembrandt was regarded as doubtful; it has been restored in recent years, although it is not universally accepted. The painting was formerly in the Orleans Collection. It was once owned by Peter Arrell Brown Widener. This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1915, who wrote; ""952. LANDSCAPE WITH A WINDMILL [commonly called, The Mill]. Sm. 601 ; Bode 142 ;"
"April 1882 for £905. It is currently housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London. The Mill (Burne-Jones painting) The Mill is an Aesthetic Movement, Renaissance-inspired oil on canvas painting completed by Edward Burne-Jones in 1882. It is a mysterious painting with no particular meaning. The painting's main feature is three women dancing in front of a mill pond on a summer evening, with a vague wooded landscape spanning the background. ""The Mill"" is currently in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Edward Burne-Jones took twelve years to complete ""The Mill"", starting work in 1870 and completing it in 1882."
"Brinkburn Mill Brinkburn Mill is a water mill located near Rothbury, in Northumberland. It once formed part of the precincts of Brinkburn Priory and was constructed in around 1800 on the site of a former medieval mill. After the dissolution of the monasteries, the Priory, and its Mill, were owned by Fenwicks of Northumberland until 1792, when the priory was sold to Joseph Hetherington. It was inherited by his niece and her husband, Major Richard Hodgson, in 1809, and the Mill appears to have been rebuilt, along with Brinkburn House, shortly thereafter. The Mill appears in a painting by J."
"theater and art gallery complex that opened in 2000 at Pier 8, Salford Quays in Salford in Greater Manchester in the UK, which is named for Lowry. Coming from the Mill ""Coming from the Mill"" is a painting by British painter Laurence Stephen Lowry from 1930. Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976) often painted his surroundings in Pendlebury, Lancashire in the United Kingdom, where he lived and worked for more than 40 years. His fame lies in images from the industrial districts in the northwest of England from the mid-1900s. He developed a painting style of cityscapes with people, often described as"
"Shalford Mill Shalford Mill is an 18th-century Grade II* listed watermill located on the River Tillingbourne in Shalford, near Guildford, Surrey, England. In 1932, the mill was endowed to the National Trust by a group of eccentric young female philanthropists called Ferguson's Gang. The Domesday Book records a mill being present on the site in 1086 - one of the five mills recorded as part of the great manor of Bramley. In the 15th century, the mill was owned by 'John atte Lee'. In the 16th by Sir Edmund Walsingham and in 1599 it was sold to George Austen. The"
"The Mill (Burne-Jones painting) The Mill is an Aesthetic Movement, Renaissance-inspired oil on canvas painting completed by Edward Burne-Jones in 1882. It is a mysterious painting with no particular meaning. The painting's main feature is three women dancing in front of a mill pond on a summer evening, with a vague wooded landscape spanning the background. ""The Mill"" is currently in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Edward Burne-Jones took twelve years to complete ""The Mill"", starting work in 1870 and completing it in 1882. Shortly after its completion, the painting was displayed at an exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery. ""The"
"Joseph Wright of Derby Joseph Wright (3 September 1734 – 29 August 1797), styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as ""the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution"". Wright is notable for his use of chiaroscuro effect, which emphasises the contrast of light and dark, and, for his paintings of candle-lit subjects. His paintings of the birth of science out of alchemy, often based on the meetings of the Lunar Society, a group of scientists and industrialists living in the English Midlands, are a significant record"
"near Chelmsford. Bamford has a small number of paintings in important public collections. Alfred Bennett Bamford Major Alfred Bennett Bamford (1857 – 21 October 1939) was an English watercolour painter, known for pictures of Essex. Bamford was born in Romford in 1857. He studied at the private Heatherley School of Art. He was a prolific artist who donoted a large quantity of paintings into public ownership on condition that they were displayed. In 1930 when he moved to Cheshire he gave 150 paintings to Romford. Bamford had been a member of a local voluntary regiment. By 1897 he was an"
"Calcot Mill Calcot Mill is an historic former watermill on the Holy Brook, a channel of the River Kennet in the English county of Berkshire. The mill is situated in the civil parish of Holybrook and to the south of Calcot, a suburb of Reading. The original mill belonged to Reading Abbey, whose monks are believed to have created the Holy Brook as a water supply to this and other mills owned by them. Between 1876 and 1928 the GWR operated a siding serving the mill which was shunted by a horse. In 1881 the American post-impressionist painter John Singer"
"public on Wednesdays and Sundays during the summer months. Shalford Mill Shalford Mill is an 18th-century Grade II* listed watermill located on the River Tillingbourne in Shalford, near Guildford, Surrey, England. In 1932, the mill was endowed to the National Trust by a group of eccentric young female philanthropists called Ferguson's Gang. The Domesday Book records a mill being present on the site in 1086 - one of the five mills recorded as part of the great manor of Bramley. In the 15th century, the mill was owned by 'John atte Lee'. In the 16th by Sir Edmund Walsingham and"
"Philip Richard Morris Philip Richard Morris (4 December 1836 in Devonport – 22 April 1902 in Clifton Hill, Maida Vale, London) was an English painter of genre and maritime scenes (particularly allegorical ones of rural life), Holman Hunt-influenced religious paintings and (later in his career) portraits. Taken to London aged 14 by his iron-founder father to train for the family trade, Philip became increasingly interested in art and, with William Holman Hunt winning round his father, began taking evening drawing classes in the British Museum and (from 1855) in the Royal Academy Schools. At the latter, he used the travelling"
"of grain, in contrast to the large shadowy figures in the foreground. The dark homespun dresses of the gleaners cut robust forms against the golden field, giving each woman a noble, monumental strength. The painting was commissioned by Thomas Gold Appleton, an American art collector based in Boston, Massachusetts. Appleton previously studied with Millet's friend, the Barbizon painter Constant Troyon. It was completed during the summer of 1857. Millet added a steeple and changed the initial title of the work, ""Prayer for the Potato Crop"" to ""The Angelus"" when the purchaser failed to take possession of it in 1859. Displayed"
"Michael Alford (artist) Michael Alford (born 15 September 1958 in Cookham, England) is a British figurative painter whose work includes landscapes, cityscapes, figures, portraits, nudes and murals. Alford was born in Cookham, England, and grew up in England and Germany. He attended the Dragon School and later Rugby School. His first art training came from his father, an officer in the Royal Engineers, who taught him how to draw in perspective at an early age. After a period in the Royal Marines, he attended Durham University where he took a degree in Spanish and Arabic. Later he traveled extensively in"
"Sanford Robinson Gifford Sanford Robinson Gifford (July 10, 1823 – August 29, 1880) was an American landscape painter and one of the leading members of the Hudson River School. Gifford's landscapes are known for their emphasis on light and soft atmospheric effects, and he is regarded as a practitioner of Luminism, an offshoot style of the Hudson River School. Not to be confused with artist Robert Swain Gifford (1840–1905), no apparent relation. Gifford was born in Greenfield, New York and spent his childhood in Hudson, New York, the son of an iron foundry owner. He attended Brown University 1842-44, where"
"""A landscape without a building or a figure is a very lonely picture to me."" Well known works include ""The Silk Mill"" (1912), ""Grey Mills"" (1913), ""The Closing Hour"" (1913) and ""Repairing the Bridge"" (1913). The Metropolitan Museum of Art bought ""Repairing the Bridge"" in 1914. His painting ""On the Canal, New Hope"" was acquired in 1916 by the Detroit Museum of Art. It depicts the back of run-down houses on the canal, with the lower portions whitewashed and bathed in light, with women doing housework. A contemporary critic wrote, ""Interpreted thro' the temperament of Robert Spencer a squalid motive"
"The Battle of Trafalgar (painting) The Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 is an 1822 painting by British artist J. M. W. Turner. It was commissioned by King George IV as a part of a series of works to decorate three state reception rooms in St James's Palace and link the Hanoverian dynasty with military success. This work was Turner's only royal commission, and was to stand as the pendant piece to Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg's ""Lord Howe's action, or the Glorious First of June"". This massive history painting measures x and was given to Greenwich Hospital shortly after its original"
"and Albert Museum, painted whilst visiting Lord Egremont at Petworth, where he encountered sculptor Francis Leggatt Chantrey and painter Thomas Phillips, Turner having been unable to come. Constable took home richly coloured sand and soil from Fittleworth Common and subsequently asked his Arundel-based brewer friend and amateur painter George Constable to send him samples of the paint from some ""slimy posts"" near the Mill. Fittleworth Fittleworth is a village and civil parish in the District of Chichester in West Sussex, England located seven kilometres (3 miles) west from Pulborough on the A283 road and three miles (5 km) south east"
"his 1868 painting titled """". In all, over four hundred artists are known to have painted White Mountain views during the 19th century. They came from the Boston area, Maine, Pennsylvania, and New York. Most of the Hudson River School painters worked in the White Mountains while maintaining studios in New York City, including such well-known artists as Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880) and Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900). Most artists came to the White Mountains in the summer, but returned to their urban studios, or sometimes to warmer climates like Florida, in the winter. Therefore, paintings of winter scenes are not"
"Wilfrid Wood Wilfrid René Wood (1 December 1888 – 18 February 1976) was a British engraver and watercolourist. He painted urban landscapes of British towns such as Stamford, Lincolnshire. Wilfrid Wood was born in Cheadle Hulme, south of Manchester. His mother was an artist and his father a cutler and surgical instrument maker. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, leaving at 16. He then studied art at Manchester School of Art, and at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. During the First World War he enlisted in the Artists'"
"a location for films and TV including: The 2014 film ""The Hunter's Prayer"" The 2015 BBC television film ""An Inspector Calls"". The 2018 film ""Funny Cow"" starring Maxine Peake Saltaire Saltaire is a Victorian model village located in Shipley, part of the City of Bradford Metropolitan District, in West Yorkshire, England. The Victorian era Salt's Mill and associated residential district located by the River Aire and Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site and an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage. Saltaire was built in 1851 by Sir Titus Salt, a leading industrialist"
"the right on the farther bank, amid dense groves of trees, are some cows, and beyond them a cottage. Evening light. The last rays of the sun illumine the right half of the sky and envelop the mill in their radiant glow. Painted about 1650. Canvas, 34 inches by 41 inches. A copy on panel, 34 1/2 inches by 39 1/2 inches was exhibited at the Grafton Gallery, London, 1911, No. 67 [by T. Humphry Ward]. Etched by Mathieu, Dequevauviller, Turner, P. J. Arendzen. Mentioned by Bode, pp. 493, 579 ; Dutuit, p. 46 ; Michel, pp. 367, 555 [282"