1796
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Cottage at East Bergholt, with a cottager is a 1796 by John Constable, a Romanticism work, depicting Cottage, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
John Constable made this early drawing in 1796, when he was still deciding whether to paint for a living. It shows a simple cottage in his home village of East Bergholt. The style is light and quick, not yet polished. This sheet is special because it has two drawings on it and only one other in the same sketchbook includes a person. Look up more about the Romanticism movement next.
A pen and ink drawing by John Constable depicts a thatched cottage with a long, sloping room, flanked by trees, and a man seated in a chair before it. Created in 1796, the work is one of his earliest known dated drawings, reflecting a light and tentative style typical of his early efforts. The sheet is divided to accommodate two drawings, and it is one of only two in his first sketchbook to include a human figure. At the time, Constable had not yet committed to an artistic career, instead assisting his father’s business while offering sketches of local cottages to the writer J. T. Smith for a…
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John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition.
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