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The Hay Wain
John Constable
The best-known English landscape, first celebrated not in London but at the Paris Salon of 1824.
- Artist
- John Constable
- Date
- 1821
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 130.2 × 185.4 cm
- Location
- The National Gallery, London
History
What the record shows
Constable painted the Suffolk millpond at Flatford from studies made on the spot.
Its Paris gold medal influenced a generation of French painters, Delacroix among them.
Provenance
Chain of ownership
- 01Royal Academy exhibition, 1821
- 02Paris Salon, 1824
- 03Henry Vaughan bequest to the National Gallery, 1886
