1819 (ca.), John Constable, Sketch for 'Stratford Mill" -- Ashmolean Museum (Oxford)
From the museum label: Constable began making oil sketches in the open air in 1802, and often used them in the development of his exhibited paintings. Stratford Mill (now in the National Gallery, London) was the second of the artist's 'six-footers', ambitious compositions painted in the studio for exhibition at the Royal Academy. The subject is the River Stour at Stratford St Mary, with anglers in the foreground and men working with a barge; the mill in the title can be seen on the left. This rapidly executed sketch was probably painted in London, but based on earlier sketches and pencil drawings made on the spot.
1819 (ca.), John Constable, Sketch for 'Stratford Mill" -- Ashmolean Museum (Oxford)
From the museum label: Constable began making oil sketches in the open air in 1802, and often used them in the development of his exhibited paintings. Stratford Mill (now in the National Gallery, London) was the second of the artist's 'six-footers', ambitious compositions painted in the studio for exhibition at the Royal Academy. The subject is the River Stour at Stratford St Mary, with anglers in the foreground and men working with a barge; the mill in the title can be seen on the left. This rapidly executed sketch was probably painted in London, but based on earlier sketches and pencil drawings made on the spot.