1814
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Sketch for <i>The Valley Farm</i> is a 1814 oil by John Constable, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This oil sketch by Constable is a quick study for a later painting. It shows a quiet farm scene near a river, with a house in the background. We know the house belongs to Willy Lott, a tenant who lived there for decades. Constable painted this first around 1814, then revisited it years later for another version. If you like this, look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch by John Constable is connected to a painting he exhibited in 1814 titled *The Ferry*, though it may have been created around 1835 when he revisited the subject for *The Valley Farm*, shown that year. The composition includes a house in the background belonging to Willy Lott, a tenant farmer who occupied it for over eight decades. The work reflects Constable’s ongoing engagement with the landscape and its inhabitants over time.
Read the full account in the museum source.
John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition.
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