Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry GMarquand . JOHN CONSTABLE, 1776-1837 35— Dedham Vale This celebrated picture, belonging to the period of Constables most perfect art, waspainted in 1811. The scene is in the neighborhood of East Bergholt, Suffolk, theartists birthplace, and in the little town of Dedham, at the head of the vale, he spent someof his school years. Here, too, lived Sir George Beaumont, a patron of the arts, whoused to assert that a good picture should be in the color of a good fiddle, brown,and unwittingly contributed to the r
Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry GMarquand . JOHN CONSTABLE, 1776-1837 35— Dedham Vale This celebrated picture, belonging to the period of Constables most perfect art, waspainted in 1811. The scene is in the neighborhood of East Bergholt, Suffolk, theartists birthplace, and in the little town of Dedham, at the head of the vale, he spent someof his school years. Here, too, lived Sir George Beaumont, a patron of the arts, whoused to assert that a good picture should be in the color of a good fiddle, brown,and unwittingly contributed to the refutation of his theory by encouraging a young manwhose art was to restore the greens to nature. The church and some houses of Dedham appear nestling beneath the distant hills,from which the vale stretches towards us embroidered with hedgerows, sprinkled withtrees, and embossed with farmsteads and clumps of foliage basking in the amber haze ofa misty horizon, rosy white beneath a pale blue sky. The foreground consists of twoslight eminences that descend towards the centre of the picture,
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