The Cornfield

Date 1832/34
Technique Mezzotint
Price $1,750.00
Exhibitor Allinson Gallery Inc.
Contact the Exhibitor 860-429-2322
jane@allinsongallery.com
Buy From / See At This Exhibitor's Site

John Constable. 1776-1837 (after) by David Lucas (1802-1881).

The Cornfield 1832/34. Mezzotint by David Lucas (1802 - 1881) after John Constable. Shirley 36.iv. Christopher Lennox-Boyd vi/vi. London: Republished Feb.y 15, 1853, by Thomas Boys (of the late Firm of Moon, Boyd & Greaves,) Printseller to the Royal Family, 467, Oxford Street - Paris. E.Gambart & C. 9 Rue d'Orleans au Marais,-Depose. Originally Published July 1, 1834. Image 22 1/4 x 19 1/2, plate 26 3/4 x 20 3/8, sheet 30 3/4 x 24 3/8. A rich impression printed on sturdy wove paper with full margins, mounted on archival paper. A few unobtrusive scrapes and folds, one horizontally across the center of the image, and a faint water stain in the top right-hand image and margin. Signed in the plate. Housed in a double archival mat and a 36 1/2 x 30 1/2 x 1 1/4-inch Hogarth frame with gilded corner ornaments

Srule10.gif - 377 Bytes

David Lucas (1802 - 1881) was a British printmaker who specialized in mezzotint. He was a pupil of Samuel William Reynolds, and worked from Bryanston Square, London, upon the completion of his education. He produced prints after Gainsborough, Vernet, Isabey, and Hoppner amongst others, but it was his works after Constable that earned him true renown. The collaboration between the pair was one of the most successful in the history of British printmaking. WhereasTurner amassed a group of faithful engravers to whom he would turn, Constable virtually employed only Lucas, and this fidelity was repaid by the stunning translation his work received from 1829, until long after his death in 1837.

Srule10.gif - 377 Bytes

John Constable (1776 - 1837) was one of the most famed painters and watercolorists of the nineteenth century. Born at East Bergholt, Suffolk, Constable was the son of a corn and coal merchant and farmer. Though he initially entered the family business in 1792, Constable made a sketching tour of Norfolk two years later, and upon an introduction to Joseph Farrington in 1799, was enrolled in the Royal Academy. He exhibited there from 1802; was made an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1819, and a Royal Academician in 1829. He was given the gold medal by Charles X when his work was displayed at the Paris Salon in 1824 and was awarded the same accolade two years later at the Society of Fine Arts, Lille. Between 1833, and until his death in 1837, Constable lectured on landscape painting at the Royal Institution, the Hampstead Literary and Scientific Society, and the Worcester Athenaeum.