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Oil on Paper, 1812, 16cm x 31.8cm, V&A

Stacks of hay in a field with the sun setting amid red clouds.

This view towards the west in East Bergholt, home to the Constables and where the artist grew up, this shows the sun setting amid the red clouds in undulating countryside with stacks of hay in the field.

Oil on Canvas, 1814, 16.2cm x 24cm, Private collection

A view of Flatford Lock on the Stour looking towards Bridge Cottage.

This small canvas is said to convey all the brilliance of Constable's full scale masterpieces and depicts a breezy English late summer scene with a distant rainstorm and a sunburst lighting up a field of haystacks.

Constable Painting
125. Flatford Lock
Oil on Canvas, 1810-1811, 36.8cm x 36.8cm, Yale

View of the lock at Flatford

Constable is said to have used ‘a thousand greens’ to capture the complexity of nature's beauty, giving it a sense of drama.
This piece has no inscription and is not signed or dated

Constable Painting
126. Autumnal Sunset
Oil on Canvas, 1812, 17.1cm x 33.6cm, V&A

A colourful sunset with figures and rooks, looking west from the end of Cemetery Lane in East Bergholt.

It is said that this sketch utilizes a fragment cut from the same canvas as another bearing the date 7 July 1812 but we have not been able to identify that piece.

Oil on Canvas, 19cm x 15.9cm, Private collection

A view of St Mary's Church from the edge of the village Green.

Constable painted St Mary's Church numerous times over the years.   His father Golding Constable was church warden for thirteen years and the family had its own pew in the middle aisle. The Rector at the time, Dr Rhudde, was the grandfather of Maria Bicknell who went on to become Constable's wife.

oil on canvas, 1817, 53.6x43.8cm, Durban Museum of Arts, South Africa

A tree lined view of the porch of East Bergholt Church from the South-west.