Cottage

c. 1850

Medium	oil on wood-pulp board, mounted on canvas
Dimensions	8 7/8 x 11 1/8 in. (22.5 x 28.3 cm) Image: 8 3/16 x 10 13/16 in. (20.8 x 27.5 cm)
Object Number	2007.8.61
Acquisition	Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status	On View

Image Caption

Lionel Bicknell Constable, Cottage, c. 1850, oil on wood-pulp board, mounted on canvas. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.61

Select Bibliography

Leggatt's. Pictures & Water-Colour Drawings by John Constable, R.A.. November 1899. London: Leggatt's. 1899. Fleming-Williams, Ian and Leslie Parris. The Discovery of Constable. London: Hamish Hamilton, Ltd., 1984. Parris, Leslie. Constable: A New York Private Collection. New York: Published Privately, 1994. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.

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Provenance

Constable family, by descent, sold to Leggatt’s; [Leggatt’s, London]; private collection, U.S.A., in 1959;¹ private collection; sale, Phillips, Edinburgh, 2 Dec. 1983, no. 85; sale, Phillips, London, 11 Dec. 1984, no. 60, as Cottage on the Stour, Flatford, sold Oscar & Peter Johnson, as agent for Manton; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1984–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–7, given to the Clark, as Cottage on the Stour); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007. 1. Both the original sale from the Constable family to Leggatt’s and the ownership of the American private collector come from labels on the back of the work.