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A Country Lane with an Avenue of Trees - John Constable - Oil Painting Wall Decor is part of our hand painted oil painting collection from the John Constable Paintings selection. Each canvas is worked by a trained artist, then inspected before dispatch — a practical route to owning romantic wall decor at a fraction of gallery pricing.
This vibrant little plein air study dates from circa 1811–16, a period during which Constable’s approach to oil sketches changed dramatically. Sketches from this period are often rapidly painted, with a confident use of colour, contrasting with the more reserved work which he produced only a few years earlier. Sometimes these sketches relate to future larger scale work, but often there is a feeling that they have been dashed off for the artist’s own pleasure, capturing a transient moment which he had observed. This little picture has such a feeling. It shows an avenue of lime trees in full growth in the summer, the foliage highlighted with characteristic flecks of yellow, contrasting with the pale evening light which illuminates the gate in the distance. During such forays into the countryside Constable was likely to have come across a local inhabitant and they often feature in his sketches, in the present case a boy seated on a wall to the right of the composition. On such occasions Constable was doubtless mindful of the advice given to him by his early mentor J.T. Smith: ‘Do not set about inventing figures for a landscape taken from nature; for you cannot remain an hour on any spot, however solitary, without the appearance of some living thing that will in all probability accord better with the scene and time of day than will any invention of your own.’1
The groundwork for these lively open air sketches was laid in 1802, when Constable returned from London to his native East Bergholt to immerse himself in the local landscape which he knew so well. In a famous, often-quoted phrase from a letter to his friend John Dunthorne he said that he planned to ‘make some laborious studies from nature’, adding that ‘there is room enough for a natural painture’. He set up for himself a studio in East Bergholt, and during this period he went down there every year except for 1807. This was a time when apart from a few sketches of local views he painted some local portraits and religious subjects, and a number of watercolours (many relating to his trip to the Lake District), but he rarely painted out of doors.
Every hand painted oil painting in this landscape series is finished on artist-grade canvas and checked against the original before it leaves the studio.
From primer to varnish, the work is done manually on artist-grade canvas. The absence of digital printing is deliberate: it keeps the landscape brushwork visible and gives the romantic oil painting wall decor a museum-like finish.
As entryway wall decor, this canvas brings color and texture without visual noise. It scales well from a small study to a large entryway feature wall, and it is a reliable choice when shopping for landscape oil painting as a gift.
Whether the search term is landscape oil painting, entryway wall decor, or romantic oil painting wall decor, this hand painted canvas delivers the same thing: a real painted surface, made to your chosen dimensions.
| Size | Price |
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| 20 X 24 in | $47.98 |
| 24 X 36 in | $77.98 |
| 30 X 40 in | $104.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $149.48 |
| 48 X 72 in | $291.98 |
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