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For collectors searching landscape oil painting, Dedham Vale, With a View to Langham Church from the Fields is a dependable choice. Painted in layered oils on canvas after John Constable, this romantic work reads equally well as classic canvas wall art and as a thoughtful housewarming gift.
Dedham Vale, With a View to Langham Church from the Fields just East of Vale Farm, East Bergholt
Painted circa 1814-15, this beautiful plein air oil sketch captures the dramatic effects of a rain squall passing through Dedham Vale, in Suffolk. The scene captures the view over rolling pasture and cornfields from East Bergholt, the village where Constable was born, looking towards Langham in the Stour Valley, with a distant view of the church spire just visible on the skyline. It is a view that the artist knew intimately, and one which was dear to his heart. Indeed the viewpoint is taken only a short distance from the artist’s studio, and scenes of the landscape around Dedham Vale would be the inspiration for many of his greatest works.
The painting is an important example of Constable’s early experiments with working outside of the confines and strictures of the studio, and his early attempts at capturing the transient effects and ephemeral power of nature. In the autumn of 1814, following a summer painting and sketching in Suffolk, Constable returned to his house at Charlotte Street in London, where he wrote to his friend John Dunthorne of his difficulties in finishing summer landscapes whilst 'it is bleak and looks as if there would be a shower of sleet'.1 He decided that in future he would attempt to finish a small oil sketch on the spot for every landscape painting he intended to make. It is from this period that small oil sketches begin to appear regularly as part of his output, fine examples of which include his small sketch of The Stour Valley and Dedham Village (Leeds City Art Galleries), also painted in 1814 and believed to be a study for a finished work of the same title which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1815 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
The following year, as the autumn of 1815 drew to a close, Constable made the unusual decision to remain in East Bergholt and spend the winter there, rather than relocating to London to attend the academy, as had previously been his habit. With the exception of short visits to London in November 1815, and January 1816, he remained there until the following March, working in his studio from sketches made over the summer. In the decades that followed his working practise would radically change, turning ever closer to nature, and eschewing the artifice of derivative landscape that was the convention of academic theory. The presence of a single spot of chrome yellow in the lower right of the picture suggests that the painting was still in Constable’s studio whilst he was working on The Wheatfield (Private Collection), circa 1815-16, when he began using this new and distinctive pigment.
Our artists reproduce this landscape composition in oil on canvas by hand, preserving the tonal range that makes landscape oil painting so sought after for a hallway.
This is a genuine hand painted oil painting, not a canvas print. Our painters match the palette of Dedham Vale, With a View to Langham Church from the Fields by eye and build up the landscape forms in thin layers, which is what gives the finished landscape oil painting its luminosity.
Hang this landscape oil painting above a sofa, console, or bed to give a hallway an instant focal point. Its romantic palette works with both minimalist and period interiors, and the piece also makes a considered gift for housewarmings, weddings, and art lovers.
| Size | Price |
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| 20 X 24 in | $58.48 |
| 24 X 36 in | $91.98 |
| 30 X 40 in | $123.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $176.98 |
| 48 X 72 in | $329.48 |
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