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Constable based this sketch on a painting called <i>The Mill</i>, which at the time was attributed to Rembrandt. He greatly admired it as ‘a picture wholly made by chiaroscuro; the last ray of light just gleams on the upper sail of the mill, and all other details are lost in large and simple masses of shade’.","physicalDescription":"Painting of a windmill (from behind and to the right).","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Constable, John (RA)","id":"A8267"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"oil paint","id":"AAT15050"},{"text":"canvas","id":"AAT14078"}],"techniques":[{"text":"oil painting","id":"AAT178684"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"oil on canvas","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"}],"styles":[{"text":"British School","id":"x30967"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AR9901","2012FR7298","2017KB8487"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"WS","id":"THES49603"},"free":"","case":"R","shelf":"22","box":"R"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"oil paintings","id":"AAT33799"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Great Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1824-1829","earliest":"1824-01-01","latest":"1829-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Isabel Constable","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"34.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"sheet","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"24.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"sheet","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"14.6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"estimate","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"11.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"estimate","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Given by Isabel Constable, 1888","historicalContext":"'In 1828 Constable exhibited at the Royal Academy two paintings called 'Landscape'. One was 'Dedham Vale' (National Gallery of Scotland, No. 2016); the other was 'Hampstead Heath' (No. 301 in this Catalogue [FA.35]). His seventh child, Lionel Bicknell, was born on 2 January. Mrs. Constable died on 23 November.' \r\n                                 \r\n[G Reynolds, 1973, p.185]","briefDescription":"Oil sketch of a windmill near Brighton by Constable.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Gray, Anne and John Gage, <i>Constable: impressions of land, sea and sky</i>, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2006","id":"AUTH356837"},"details":"","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<i>Catalogue of the Constable Collection</i>, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 185, 189-190"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"p. 69","free":"Shân Lancaster, ed. <i>Constable and Brighton: something out of nothing</i>. London : Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd, 2017. 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It depicts a ‘smock’ mill – named for the resemblance of its weather-boarded tower to the traditional smocks worn by farm workers.\n\r\nFrom J<i>ohn Constable and David Lucas: A Unison of Feeling</i> at V&A South Kensington from 15 November 2025 to 14 June 2026\r\n","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["588-1888"],"accessionNumberNum":"588","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1888,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Reynolds catalogue no.","id":"THES50402"},"number":"310, plate 233"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-08-20","recordCreationDate":"2003-08-27","availableToBook":false}}