• 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.
  • His most famous paintings include Dedham Vale of 1802 and The Hay Wain of 1821.
  • The composition of The Vale of Dedham was in part inspired by Claude Lorrain’s Hagar and the Angel.
  • The Vale of Dedham is a dazzlingly clear, light-filled painting, the resolution of believable distance in perspective with a lucid two-dimensional organisation or ‘design’.
  • The Vale of Dedham is one of the many paintings by John Constable that depicts the area known as Dedham Vale.
  • The viewer’s eye is led across the painting from the foreground along the river to the distant focal point of the distant tower of Dedham church.
  • 43.5 x 34.4 cms | 17 x 13 ½ ins. National Gallery of Scotland, United Kingdom.
  • A fertile and workmanlike landscape centred on the village and parish of Dedham, which had been a prosperous cloth-working town in the Middle Ages...
  • The Vale of Dedham 1828. ... Dedham from Langham by John Constable.
  • As we launch our Greentraveller's Guide to Dedham Vale, our writer follows in the footsteps of John ConstableYou can hardly take a step in this part of the...
  • Page of Dedham Vale by CONSTABLE, John in the Web Gallery of Art, a searchable image collection and database of European painting, sculpture and...