View on the River Severn at Worcester
About this artwork
Constable drew to record nature and to develop different ideas for landscape compositions. He particularly favoured working with pencil and was able to evoke a remarkable range of tones, marks and expressive effects with the medium. This sketch of the River Avon is one of a group Constable made while staying with his sister-in-law at Bewdley in Worcestershire. A broken barge lies in two sections on the river bank, while a man brings a horse to water beyond. A great copse of trees forms the backdrop. The every day, rustic nature of the scene would have greatly appealed to Constable.
Updated before 2020
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artist:John Constable (1776 - 1837) English
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title:View on the River Severn at Worcester
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date created:Dated 1835
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materials:Pencil on paper
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measurements:21.80 x 28.10 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Presented through Art Fund 1953, from the Collection of Sir Edward Marsh
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accession number:D 4674
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John Constable
John Constable
Constable introduced a new and refreshing naturalism into British nineteenth-century landscape painting. He concentrated on depicting the Suffolk countryside around his birthplace, although also painted in Salisbury and Hampstead. Constable never travelled abroad. His compositions and interest in...