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Choose Landscape with a Red-tiled Cottage, A Windmill and a Rainbow as a hand painted oil painting and skip the compromise of printed wall decor. Based on John Constable's original. Our artists rebuild the landscape composition stroke by stroke, producing romantic canvas wall art with lasting color depth.
A detailed report on the materials and techniques of the painting by Sarah Cove ACR, Constable Research Project is available HERE
This late oil sketch by Constable, which has emerged recently from a private collection in America, is a remarkable new discovery. Closely based on a watercolour Constable made either in Kent in 1833 or, more likely, in Sussex in 1834 (Victoria & Albert Museum, London; fig. 1), it can be firmly dated to around this period or slightly later, and throws interesting new light on his painting practice in his final years.
Constable’s ‘late work’ is usually defined, broadly speaking, as encompassing the 1830s, that is to say embracing the last seven of so years of his life, although it’s roots can be traced back to the late 1820s. Key characteristics of his late work are a looser and more expressive brushwork, and a subject-matter in which he began to depart more significantly than hitherto from his earlier credo of ‘truth to nature’. Whilst the famous series of ‘six-foot’ canvases of scenes on the River Stour he painted between 1819 to 1825, for example The White Horse, 1819 (Frick Collection, New York) or The Hay Wain, 1821 (National Gallery, London), are of course studio compositions made in London away from the actual Suffolk scenes they depict, they are nevertheless broadly true in their details to the realities of the scenes they represent. By comparison, Constable’s later pictures, such as The Cornfield, 1826 (National Gallery, London), The Valley Farm, 1835 (Tate, London), or Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow 1836 (Tate, London), all incorporate - to a greater or lesser extent - more exaggerated or synthetic elements, often taken from earlier compositions, and have an air of nostalgia that tends to be lacking in his earlier work.
Nevertheless, this more synthetic way of working in Constable’s late period chiefly applies to those works which are related in some way to his public face, that is to say compositions which he produced in connection with a work which was destined for exhibition or, perhaps, made for David Lucas with a view to being engraved for his late publishing project, English Landscape (1830–32). In his private work, by contrast, Constable was at this date continuing to sketch in the open air with as much enthusiasm as in earlier years, albeit now for the most part just in pencil or watercolour, having essentially abandoned the use of oils for plein-air work from 1829.
The landscape subject is rebuilt stroke by stroke in oil, giving the finished canvas the depth expected of romantic oil painting wall decor.
Expect subtle, hand-made variation rather than factory uniformity. Each landscape canvas is painted with oils, allowed to cure properly, and inspected before it is approved for shipment.
Wondering where landscape oil painting looks best? Try a bedroom mantel, a dining room sideboard, or a hallway gallery wall. The landscape subject reads clearly from a distance and rewards close viewing up near.
In short: Landscape with a Red-tiled Cottage, A Windmill and a Rainbow - John Constable - Oil Painting Wall Decor combines a romantic composition, a 100% hand painted oil painting process, and the flexibility of made-to-order canvas sizes — a dependable choice for landscape oil painting and bedroom wall art.
| 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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