John Constable
Coal Brigs and Fishing Vessels on the Beach at Brighton

Coal Brigs and Fishing Vessels on the Beach at Brighton

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Coal Brigs and Fishing Vessels on the Beach at Brighton
ArtistBritish, 1776–1837
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Coal Brigs and Fishing Vessels on the Beach at Brighton
Date1824
Place depictedBrighton and Hove, England
MediumGraphite on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 5 1/4 × 7 in. (13.3 × 17.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in memory of Rear Admiral Philip Carleton Koelsch
Object number2015.551
Not on view

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Object Type
ProvenanceThe Constable family; Sir Bruce N. Ingram, OBE, MC, FSA (b. 1877), Chesham, Buckinghamshire, by 1937 (Lugt 1405a); [Sotheby's, London, Ingram Sale: Part V, March 17, 1965, lot 771]; purchased by Dr. William Katz; inherited by the Katz family, until 2012; [Lowell Libson Ltd., London, by 2015]; purchased by MFAH, 2015.
Exhibition History"Masters of Maritime Art, A Loan Exhibition of Drawings from the Collection of Captain Bruce S Ingram OBE, FSA," P & D Colnaghi, London, 1936.

"Constable and Brighton," Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, England, April 8–October 8, 2017.
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Catalogue raisonnéReynolds 24.49

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