The painting 'The Haywain' by Constable depicts a cart crossing which river?
"compositions, such as his views of Salisbury Cathedral. The Foster version remains in private hands, one of just three such major works by Constable, and was auctioned at Sotheby's London on the evening of 9 December 2015 on its low estimate at £9,109,000. Previous owners of the painting include William Orme Foster (1814–1900) of Apley Hall, Shropshire, one time High Sheriff of Shropshire, and his descendants. The Lock (Constable) The Lock is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, finished in 1824. It depicts a rural scene on the River Stour in Suffolk, one of six paintings within the"
"Constable, is visible on the far left. The scene takes place near Flatford Mill in Suffolk, though since the Stour forms the border of two counties, the left bank is in Suffolk and the landscape on the right bank is in Essex. ""The Hay Wain"" is one of a series of paintings by Constable called the ""six-footers"", large-scale canvasses which he painted for the annual summer exhibitions at the Royal Academy. As with all of the paintings in this series Constable produced a full-scale oil sketch for the work; this is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London."
"Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large ""six-foot"" paintings, and the first in the ""Stour series"" which later included ""The Hay Wain"". It is owned and exhibited at the Tate Britain gallery in London. ""Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River)"" is painted in oil on canvas. It depicts a working rural scene from Suffolk, as two lighter barges and their crew progress up the"
"John Constable John Constable, (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the naturalistic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home – now known as ""Constable Country"" – which he invested with an intensity of affection. ""I should paint my own places best"", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, ""painting is but another word for feeling"". Constable's most famous paintings include ""Wivenhoe Park"" of 1816, ""Dedham Vale"" of 1802 and ""The Hay Wain"" of 1821. Although his paintings"
"church across the quintessentially English water meadows The scene is set under a towering tree and a dramatic, cloud-filled sky. ""The Lock"" is the fifth of six paintings that make up the ""Stour series"" of large-scale rural works, that Constable exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1819 and 1825. The painting is the only one of the series which remains in private hands, with the more famous ""The Hay Wain"" in the National Gallery, London. After its exhibition in 1824, ""The Morning Post"" commented: ""Mr Constable contributes a landscape composition which for depth, sparkling light, freshness and vigorous effect exceeds"
"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."
"painting during his lifetime, and as a result it became part of the inheritance to his daughter Isabel. In 1888, she bequeathed it on behalf of herself, her sister Maria Louise and their brother Lionel Bicknell to The Tate gallery in London, where it has been displayed ever since. Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large ""six-foot"" paintings, and the first in the ""Stour series"""
"buried in this family tomb.) Bridge Cottage is a National Trust property, open to the public. Nearby Flatford Mill and Willy Lott's Cottage (the house visible in ""The Hay Wain"") are used by the Field Studies Council for courses. The largest collection of original Constable paintings outside London is on display at Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich. Constable quietly rebelled against the artistic culture that taught artists to use their imagination to compose their pictures rather than nature itself. He told Leslie, ""When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to"
"Hay Wain"" is revered today as one of the greatest British paintings, when it was originally exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1821 (under the title ""Landscape: Noon""), it failed to find a buyer. It was considerably better received in France where it was praised by Théodore Géricault. The painting caused a sensation when it was exhibited with other works by Constable at the 1824 Paris Salon (it has been suggested that the inclusion of Constable's paintings in the exhibition was a tribute to Géricault, who died early that year). In that exhibition, ""The Hay Wain"" was singled out for"
"The White Cart Water then joins with the Black Cart Water, just downstream of the bridge, to become the River Cart. Robert Burns' poem ""The Gallant Weaver"" mentions the River Cart. A major flood alleviation scheme has been built by Glasgow City Council to protect vulnerable property on the south side of Glasgow. Designed by Halcrow the scheme was at the time the largest flood alleviation project undertaken in Scotland. Paisley Abbey has a medieval drain, belonging to the monastery, which was rediscovered in the 1990s; and excavated by archaeologists. The abbey/monastery drain linked with the White Cart Water both"
"be connected with Fathers 4 Justice, glued a photograph of a young boy to the painting while it was on display at the National Gallery. The work was not permanently damaged. It has been suggested that the reason for the wagon stopping at the ford was to allow the river water to cool the horses' legs and to soak the wheels. In hot dry weather, the wooden wheels would shrink away from their metal rims. Wetting the wheels reduced the shrinkage and kept the outer metal band in place. The Hay Wain The Hay Wain is a painting by John"
"Farm. William Lott (1761 - 1849), a tenant farmer, resided at Gibeons Farm all his life and spent only four nights away from this house in the whole of his life. He is buried at St Mary the Virgin Churchyard in East Bergholt. 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"
"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"
"of Lewis Carroll has been sourced to paintings: ""The White Knight echoes Millais's ""Sir Isumbras at the Ford"". "" A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford (1857) is a painting by John Everett Millais depicting a medieval knight helping two young peasant children over a swollen river. The children are carrying heavy burdens of wood for winter fuel. Though the title refers to the medieval poem ""Sir Isumbras"", the painting does not illustrate a scene from the original text. However Millais's friend, the writer Tom Taylor, wrote"
"a gold medal awarded by Charles X of France, a cast of which is incorporated into the picture's frame. The works by Constable in the exhibition inspired a new generation of French painters, including Eugène Delacroix. Sold at the exhibition with three other Constables to the dealer John Arrowsmith, ""The Hay Wain"" was brought back to England by another dealer, D. T. White; he sold it to a Mr. Young who resided in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. It was there that the painting came to the attention of the collector Henry Vaughan and the painter Charles Robert Leslie."
"The National Trust. The cottage is located on the bank of the River Stour, just downstream from Flatford Mill in the heart of Dedham Vale, a typically English rural landscape. Flatford Mill, along with neighbouring Valley Farm and Bridge Cottage, are leased to the Field Studies Council, which uses them as locations for arts-based courses such as painting and as accommodation for sciences-based courses such as residential ecology trips for schools at A-level and younger. The cottage takes its name from its resident at the time John Constable did his paintings. At that time the house was known as Gibeons"
"Washington Crossing the Delaware Washington Crossing the Delaware is an 1851 oil-on-canvas painting by the German-American artist Emanuel Leutze. It commemorates General George Washington during his famous crossing of the Delaware River with the Continental Army on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. That action was the first move in a surprise attack against the German Hessian allied mercenary forces at Trenton, New Jersey, in the Battle of Trenton on the morning of December 26. The original was part of the collection at the Kunsthalle in Bremen, Germany, and was destroyed in a bombing raid"
"is bordered by a bay known as The Wash, where owing to deposits of sediment and land reclamation, the coastline has altered markedly within historical times; several towns once on the coast of the Wash (notably King's Lynn) are now some distance inland. Conversely, over to the east on the coast exposed to the North Sea the coastline is subject to rapid erosion and has shifted inland significantly since historic times. Major rivers include Suffolk's Stour, running through country beloved of the painter John Constable, and the River Nene. The River Cam is a tributary of the Great Ouse and"
"Blasting St. Vincent's Rock, Clifton Blasting St. Vincent's Rock, Clifton is a watercolor created by Norwich artist John Sell Cotman. Created in 1830, it is currently part of the permanent collection in the Indianapolis Museum of Art. In the foreground, there is a boat, floating down the Avon River, right outside Bristol. There is a second boat, further down the river, nearer to the action of the painting. The dark, rocky cliffs on the left are juxtaposed with the light, sheer cliffs on the right, creating a deep contrast for the center, where the river runs through. The subject of"
"Stratford St. Mary Stratford St. Mary is a village in Suffolk, England in the heart of 'Constable Country'. John Constable painted a number of paintings in and around Stratford. Stratford (the ford of the Roman ""Via Strata"") with its attached hamlet of Higham sits on the Suffolk/Essex border on the River Stour, Suffolk. It is from London just off the A12 between Colchester and Ipswich. The village has a fifteenth-century flint faced church which is clearly visible from the A12. It is also served by a primary school, post office and village store, and three pubs. Stratford village is within"
"Kennard. Peter Kennard Peter Kennard (born 17 February 1949) is a London-born and based photomontage artist and Senior Research Reader in Photography, Art and the Public Domain at the Royal College of Art. Seeking to reflect his involvement in the anti-Vietnam War movement, he turned from painting to photomontage to better address his political views. He is best known for the images he created for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in the 1970s–80s including a détournement of John Constable's ""The Hay Wain"" called ""Haywain with Cruise Missiles"". Because many of the left-wing organisations and publications he used to work"
"The painting depicts the loading of a hay onto a cart pulled by four oxen. The beasts to the right wait patiently, attended by a man in wide-brimmed hat. Other men are cutting grass with scythes, while women rake up the hay, and other people use pitchforks to lift the hay onto a large pile on the cart. The painting was bought by the French state in 1854 for 20,000 francs. It won a gold medal when it was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1855, as a pendant to ""Ploughing in the Nivernais"". It was also exhibited"
"Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps is an oil on canvas painting by J. M. W. Turner, first exhibited in 1812. Left to the nation in the Turner Bequest, it was acquired by the National Gallery in London in 1856, and is now held by the Tate Gallery. The painting depicts the struggle of Hannibal's soldiers to cross the Maritime Alps in 218BC, opposed by the forces of nature and local tribes. A curving black storm cloud dominates the sky, poised to descend on the soldiers in the"
"the painting originated with Constable's honeymoon to Osmington in 1816. The canvas is displayed in the National Gallery; Constable painted a similar (but larger) version entitled ""Osmington Shore"" which was exhibited at the British Institution in 1819. The Weymouth Waterworks Company was established in 1797, and in 1856 the company employed Thomas Hawksley to convert Upper Mill on the Jordan in Sutton Poyntz into a pumping station to supply water to Weymouth. Following the fatal explosion of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS ""Great Eastern"" in 1859, the vessel was towed to the Isle of Portland and Weymouth Waterworks Company purchased the"
"Constable embarked on amateur sketching trips in the surrounding Suffolk and Essex countryside, which was to become the subject of a large proportion of his art. These scenes, in his own words, ""made me a painter, and I am grateful""; ""the sound of water escaping from mill dams etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things."" He was introduced to George Beaumont, a collector, who showed him his prized ""Hagar and the Angel"" by Claude Lorrain, which inspired Constable. Later, while visiting relatives in Middlesex, he was introduced to the professional artist John Thomas Smith,"
"is a statue of Mary, Queen of Scots, playing the lute. This is especially suitable, as the Somerville family were supporters of the Marian cause and assisted in raising an army for her in 1568 at Hamilton. William Somerville Esq. of Ampherlaw, although the eldest son and born at Ampherlaw, was passed over for his younger brother, in the Scottish manner of succession to land and titles, and chose to emigrate to Tasmania with his wife and several children. Their ship was the ill-fated Catherine Sharer, which blew up in June 1855 in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel at night on its"
"recognition and a reputation as a Western painter. Other western-themed works include ""Lynch Law – Comrade’s Appeal"" 1877, ""Scouts of the Yellowstone"", 1877 and ""Back to the Wigwam"" 1881. The painting of ""Preliminary Trial of a Horsethief"" was painted near Oskaloosa, Iowa. The Magistrate in this trial, seated in the center of the picture, is John F. Cartwright (1827-1893), my Second Great Grandfather. The Des Moines Register published this picture in their Sunday edition in about 1954. Submitted by Harvey C. Mayhill. In 1876 when news of General George Custer’s fatal defeat by the Sioux Indians at the Battle of"
"The Harvest Wagon The Harvest Wagon is the name of two paintings by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough. The first was done around 1767 and is today owned by the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, in Birmingham, England. The later painting was done around 1784 and is part of the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. The later painting is the better known of the two. It was donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario by Frank P Wood. It is one of the most prominent pieces in the collection of the AGO. Both paintings depict a group of"
"produced from this trip, the numerous sketches and watercolours that he produced have been admired, and take their place in his development as an artist, dealing largely with questions of composition and mood. Constable was one of those artists, like Robert Hills who signalled a move towards the sketch, in HilVictoria and Albert Museum (1984), l's case moving away from the Arcadian panorama towards close-up views. Hills visited the Lakes in 1803, accompanied by John Glover (artist), and guided by William Green. Glover followed the Arcadian tradition of Richard Wilson. If Turner and Constable took freedoms with what they saw"
"The River Bank (Ophelia) The River Bank (Ophelia) is a 1980 painting by the English painter David Inshaw. The subject is from William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"". It was made for a joint exhibition of the Brotherhood of Ruralists, where each artist made his own interpretation of the subject. Since 2015 it belongs to the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath, Somerset. The painting depicts an English garden. In the foreground is a river, in which a drowned woman lies. Another woman is running away, holding her red, broad-brimmed hat with both hands. The Victoria Art Gallery writes: ""In ""The River Bank"""
"is the river and the grasslands in bright hues of blue and green. The background, which is cut off by the horizon line of the darker blue river, is a pale blue sky highlighted with white and gray clouds. This compositional form is applied here by the crowded left and right sides bracketed by hills, which pushes the viewer's eye into the open space in the middle and reinforces that the men in the boat are the main focus of the painting. Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx is a painting by the Flemish"
"in October 1816 at St Martin-in-the-Fields (with Fisher officiating) was followed by time at Fisher's vicarage and a honeymoon tour of the south coast. The sea at Weymouth and Brighton stimulated Constable to develop new techniques of brilliant colour and vivacious brushwork. At the same time, a greater emotional range began to be expressed in his art. 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. That year he was elected an"