Stoke-by-Nayland
John Constable · 1836 · Oil on canvas
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Stoke-by-Nayland is a public-domain painting by John Constable, dated 1836. Oil on canvas. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Stoke-by-Nayland” (1836) comes out of Constable’s Suffolk studies: clouds, canals, and mills sketched in oil outdoors, then used for a larger picture.
About the artist
John Constable (1776–1837) painted the Suffolk landscape he grew up in: canals, clouds, and mills studied from oil sketches made outdoors. Those cloud studies were working notes for larger exhibition pictures.
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