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It is likely to be a reworking of the painting, rather than a direct drawing from nature. The drawing, though, gives the scene a strikingly different character. Whereas the painting is bathed with sunlight and depicts busy water traffic, the drawing's dramatic use of tone creates an atmosphere of brooding melancholy. Line is hardly evident at all. Nearly all the forms are created with solid blocks of dark sepia ink, with few mid-tones. 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He gave four lectures on 'The History of Landscape Painting' at the Royal Institution in May and June of this year and his last lecture, at Hampstead, on 25 July. Constable died on 31 March 1837. His almost completed painting 'Arundel Mill and Castle' (now in the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio; see No. 379 [260-1888]) was exhibited posthumously at the Royal Academy.' \r\n                                 \t\r\n[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 233]","briefDescription":"John Constable, 'View on the Stour : Dedham Church in the distance', c.1832-6, Reynolds cat. no. 410","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Owens, Susan, <u>The Art of Drawing British Masters and Methods since 1600</u>, V&A Publishing, London, 2013, p. 75 & 85, fig. 63"},{"reference":{"text":"Parris, Leslie and Fleming-Williams, Ian. <i>Constable </i> London : The Tate Gallery, 1991","id":"AUTH354806"},"details":"no.343","free":""},{"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":"Hoozee, Robert (ed.), <i>British Vision. 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