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

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Artist John Constable (British, 1776–1837)British, 1776–1837

CultureBritish

Titles

Coal Brigs and Fishing Vessels on the Beach at Hove

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

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Special Collections

The Stuart Collection

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenanceApparently from the collection of the artist’s family; Sir Bruce Stirling Ingram, OBE, MC, FSA 1877–1963) (Lugt 1405a), Chesham Buckinghamshire, by 1937; [his sale, Sotheby’s, London, The Collection of English Drawings, March 17, 1965, part V, lot 771 (as Fishing Vessels Drawn up on a beach at Low Tide)]);, purchased by Dr. William Katz; inherited by the Katz family, until 2012; [Sotheby’s, New York, Old Master Drawings, January 25, 2012, lot 130]; [Lowell Libson Ltd., London, 2012–2015]; purchased by MFAH, 2015.
Exhibition HistoryProbably Masters of Maritime Art, A Loan Exhibition of Drawings from the Collection of Captain Bruce S Ingram OBE, FSA, P & D Colnaghi, London, 1936.

British Paintings and Works on Paper, Lowell Libson, London, 2013 (exh. cat., 104-5, illus. [as Coal Brigs and Fishing Vessels on the Beach at Brighton]).

Constable and Brighton: Something out of Nothing, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, England, April 8-October 8, 2017.
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Catalogue raisonnéReynolds, Graham. The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable. London: Yale University Press, 1984, 1:144, cat. 24.49, 2: plate 520.

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