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His father died on 14 May.  He spent some of the summer in Suffolk and paid two visits to Wivenhoe.  He was married by his friend John Fisher to Miss Bicknell on 2 October at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and they spent part of the honeymoon staying with Fisher at his vicarage at Osmington, Dorsetshire.\r\n\r\n[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 110]","briefDescription":"Oil sketch of a Coastal landscape by John Constable, England, 1816","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Parris, Leslie and Fleming-Williams, Ian. <i>Constable </i> London : The Tate Gallery, 1991","id":"AUTH354806"},"details":"no.84","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Morris, Edward, ed. <u> Constable's Clouds: Paintings and Cloud Studies by John Constable </u>,  Edinburgh : National Galleries of Scotland ; Liverpool : National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, c2000. 176 p. : ill. (some col.). ISBN 1903278058 (paperback), 1903278066 (hardback)."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Passion for Paint. A National Gallery Touring Exhibition in Partnership with Bristol's Museums, Galleries & Archives Service and Tyne & Wear Museums</u> Exhibition pamphlet."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<i>Catalogue of the Constable Collection</i>, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 110, 114, 115"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Timothy Wilcox, <u>Constable and Salisbury. The Soul of Landscape</u> London: Scala Publishers Ltd, 2011. 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The immediacy of his reaction and expression is a quality we associate more with French Impressionism of some fifty years later, but it reminds us that Constable's work was much admired in France (another version of Weymouth Bay is today in the Louvre in Paris) and influenced two generations of French painters.  Especially notable here are the figures, walking their dogs on the beach and battling their umbrellas against the wind, conjured from a few rapid strokes of his brush.  It is also a fine example of Constable's thesis that 'it will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment'.","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["330-1888"],"accessionNumberNum":"330","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1888,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Reynolds catalogue no.","id":"THES50402"},"number":"155, plate 127"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-04-21","recordCreationDate":"1999-12-15","availableToBook":false}}