• The Vale of Dedham is an 1828 oil painting by the English painter John Constable which depicts Dedham Vale on the Essex-Suffolk border in eastern England.
  • In 1802, at the age of twenty-six John Constable completed his first major work entitled Dedham Vale which is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
  • The artist's parents, Golding and Ann Constable, lived at East Bergholt on the north eastern edge of the Vale, where the young painter was born and brought...
  • I would say the actual content of The Vale of Dedham as a painting is a direct result of John Constable’s intense commitment to inventing and organising the...
  • John Constable - View of Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds c.1822. ... John Constable - A View On The Stour Near Dedham.
  • The painting (without the frame) sold for the substantial price of 100 guineas to his friend John Fisher, finally providing Constable with a level of financial freedom...
  • He completed The Vale of Dedham in 1828, the year that his wife Maria Elizabeth Bicknell died. Portrait of John Constable around 1830.
  • Dedham Vale. John Constable, 1802 (top), 1828 (bottom), Oil on canvas. 144.50 x 122.00 cm.
  • One of Constable’s first major paintings created when he was twenty-six between the end of the French revolutionary wars and the beginning of the Napoleonic wars.
  • Although this sketch has been catalogued in the past as an early work by John Constable, it is difficult to point to anything by him which it particularly...
  • Constable’s Vale of Dedham in the Scottish National Gallery is a mature masterpiece that sums up Constable’s achievement as well as any other single work.
  • Constable's sceptical attitude to the Old Masters resulted not in rejection but in a selective reinterpretation, as in the upright view of his native landscape, Dedham...