Dedham Lock and Mill

Painting by John Constable

Dedham Lock and Mill

Version in the Victoria and Albert Museum

Artist| John Constable
Year| c. 1820
Type| Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions| 53.7 cm × 76.2 cm (21.1 in × 30.0 in)
Location| Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Dedham Lock and Mill is an c.1820 landscape painting by the English artist John Constable.[1] It shows a view of the River Stour at Dedham in Essex close to the border of his native Suffolk, an area now known as "Constable Country". Constable's father owned the mill as well as nearby Flatford Mill, which he painted on numerous occasions.[2] St Mary's Church is seen in the distance.

There is a possibility that the work was begun in 1817 and exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition in 1818. However the 1820 date for this work is more likely and is the date Constable gave it and which his friend and biographer Charles Robert Leslie gave to it.[3] Several variations of it now exist including one in the Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire. The oil sketch is now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, having been gifted by the art collector John Sheepshanks in 1857.[4]

## See also

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* List of paintings by John Constable

## References

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1. ^ Cole & Gealt p.228
2. ^ Reynolds p.64
3. ^ Reynolds p.64
4. ^ https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O17381/dedham-lock-and-mill-oil-painting-constable-john-ra/

## Bibliography

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* Cole, Bruce & Gealt, Adelheid M. Art of the Western World: From Ancient Greece to Post Modernism. Simon and Schuster, 1991.
* Hamilton, James. Constable: A Portrait. Hachette UK, 2022.
* Reynolds, Graham. Constable's England. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983.

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Paintings|

* List of paintings
* Old Hall, East Bergholt (1801)
* The Bridges Family (1804)
* Bow Fell, Cumberland (1807)
* The Church Porch, East Bergholt (1810)
* The Celebration in East Bergholt of the Peace of 1814 (1814)
* Brightwell Church and Village (1815)
* Boat-Building Near Flatford Mill (1815)
* Stour Valley and Dedham Church (1815)
* Golding Constable's Flower Garden (1815)
* Golding Constable's Vegetable Garden (1815)
* Weymouth Bay (1816)
* The Quarters behind Alresford Hall (1816)
* The Wheat Field (1816)
* Wivenhoe Park (1816)
* Flatford Mill (1817)
* Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill (1817)
* Willy Lott's House from the Stour (1818)
* The White Horse (1819)
* Dedham Lock and Mill (1820)
* Harwich Lighthouse (1820)
* Stratford Mill (1820)
* Waterloo Bridge (1820)
* Harnham Gate (1821)
* Trees at Hampstead (1821)
* The Hay Wain (1821)
* Malvern Hall (1821)
* The Grove, Hampstead (1822)
* Hampstead Heath, with a Bonfire (1822)
* Road to the Spaniards (1822)
* View on the Stour near Dedham (1822)
* Yarmouth Jetty (1822)
* Gillingham Bridge (1823)
* Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds (1823)
* The Lock (1824)
* Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath (1825)
* The Leaping Horse (1825)
* A Boat Passing a Lock (1826)
* The Cornfield (1826)
* Parham Mill (1826)
* Chain Pier, Brighton (1827)
* The Vale of Dedham (1828)
* Hadleigh Castle (1829)
* The Glebe Farm (1830)
* Helmingham Dell (1830)
* Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows (1831)
* The Opening of Waterloo Bridge (1832)
* Sir Richard Steele's Cottage, Hampstead (1832)
* Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1836)
* Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow (1836)
* Arundel Mill and Castle (1837)

Related|

* Charles Golding Constable (son)
* Constable Country
* Portrait of John Constable

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