Coast Scene Near Brighton

between 1824 and 1828

John Constable English, 1776-1837

On View

British, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Coast Scene Near Brighton

Artwork Date between 1824 and 1828

Artist John Constable

Life Dates 1776-1837

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. English

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Medium Oil on paper, mounted on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 13 × 20 inches (33 × 50.8 cm) Framed: 19 5/8 × 27 × 3 3/8 inches (49.8 × 68.6 × 8.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 53.364

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Provenance

Mrs. Constable;
Captain C.G. Constable;
Humphrey Roberts (?);
John Postle Heseltine;
1929, (Robert Langton-Douglas, London, England);
purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1953-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Leslie, C.R. Life of John Constable.1835.

Exhibition of the Works of Old Masters. Exh. cat., Royal Academy. London, 1872, cat. 264.

Heseltine, J.P. Drawings and Paintings by Artists of Norfolk and Suffolk in the Collection of J. P. Heseltine. London, 1914, no. 4.

Lucas, E.V. John Constable, the Painter. London, 1924, color pl. 20.

The Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of the Whitcomb Collection. Detroit, 1931, p. 59.

Five Centuries of Marine Painting. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1942, p. 20, cat. 66 (ill.).

The Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of the Whitcomb Gifts. Detroit, 1954, p. 41.

Detroit Athletic Club News 39, no. 5 (1954): p. 17, (cover ill.).

Impressionism and its Roots. Exh. cat., University of Iowa Museum of Art. Iowa City, 1964, pp. 3, 16, cat. 6 (ill.).

Constable. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Milwaukee, 1976, p. 7, cat. 2 (ill.).

Small Paintings from Famous Collections. Exh. cat., Taft Museum. Cincinnati, 1981 (ill.).

Sutton, D. "Robert Langton Douglas, Part III, section 17. Dramatic Days." Apollo 109 (June 1979): pp. 447-475, esp. pp. 456, 465 (fig. 18).

Constable's England. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1983, p. 144 (ill.).

Reynolds, Graham. The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable. New Haven, 1984, p. 149-150, pl. 550.

Constable. Exh. cat., Tate Gallery. London, 1991, p. 274, pl. 151 (cat. entry by L. Parris and I. Fleming-Williams).

John Constable & David Lucas. Exh. cat., Salander-O'Reilly Galleries. New York, 1993, no. 74 (color ill.).

Constable's Skies. Exh. cat., Salander-O'Reilly Galleries. New York, 2004, p. 145 (fig. 59), pp. 123-152.

Constable: Impressions of Land, Sea and Sky. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Australia and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Canberra and Wellington, 2006, cat. no. 65, p. 224, (ill.) pp. 225, 284.

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John Constable, Coast Scene Near Brighton, between 1824 and 1828, oil on paper, mounted on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 53.364.