Lot Essay
Comprising picturesque views and landscape studies around Arundel, Fittleworth and Hurstmonceux and including approx. nineteen studies of Hurstmonceux Castle and the chapel, several including figures; a portrait of a painter working en plein air by a stream (illus.), another with George Constable; four studies of haystacks; three views of Parham Park; seventeen of Fittleworth including images of cottages, landscapes and a portrait study of a woman sewing; approx. thirty-five around Silchester House including garden and greenhouse views, images of the cottages around the house and a few views of the farm; eleven harbour views, probably around Ramsgate; and thirty art reproductions.
George Constable of Arundel was a brewer whom the artist John Constable (1776-1837) befriended in the early 1830s. John Constable often found landscape subjects for his paintings in the places where he went to visit people and some of the photographs in this album are reminiscent of Constable's paintings of the area.
George Constable of Arundel was a brewer whom the artist John Constable (1776-1837) befriended in the early 1830s. John Constable often found landscape subjects for his paintings in the places where he went to visit people and some of the photographs in this album are reminiscent of Constable's paintings of the area.