File:John Constable - Salisbury Cathedral from the meadows (02).jpg

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John Constable: Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows  wikidata:Q28532649 reasonator:Q28532649
Artist
John Constable  (1776–1837)  wikidata:Q159297 q:en:John Constable
 
John Constable
Description English painter, landscape painter and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death 11 June 1776 Edit this at Wikidata 31 March 1837 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death East Bergholt (Suffolk) London
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artist QS:P170,Q159297
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English: Salisbury Cathedral from the meadows
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date Unknown date
Unknown date
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 71 cm (27.9 in); width: 90 cm (35.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,71U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,90U174728
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Object history Possibly the artist's posthumous sale, Foster's, 16th May 1838, lot 14 (bt. for £9.19 by Radford) or lot 37 (bt. fir £6.10 by 'Williams' as a misunderstanding for Wilson, see later provenance. Williams also purchased GR 19.9 in the Foster's sale, now Louvre Museum) both entitled sketch of 'Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows';
John Wilson (1811-1883), who assumed the surname FitzPatrick in 1842 and was created 1st Lord Castletown in 1869, the illegitimate son of John FitzPatrick, 2nd and last Earl of Upper Ossory (1745-1818);
By descent to his daughter Augusta, the Honourable Mrs. Magniac of Colworth, Bedfordshire, previously Mrs. Dawson (widow of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Vesey Dawson, c. 1845) who married as her second husband Charles Magniac (1827-1891), son of Hollingworth Magniac (d. 1867);
The Honourable Mrs Magniac, of Colworth Bedfordshire, by whom consigned to Christie's, London, February 1892 (not offered for sale)
References by Sotheby's (PDF)
Source/Photographer Sotheby's

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