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Glebe Farm
Bequeathed by Henry Vaughan 1900
agricultural
architecture
bridge
bridges and viaducts
church
England
England, East
Essex
farm
features
landscape
Langham, Glebe Farm
places
religious
stream
tower
townscapes / man-made features
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
village
water: inland
wooded
<p>In 1825, following the death of his old friend Dr Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury, Constable decided to make a picture of Church Farm, Langham. He adapted a small sketch of the subject he had made many years before.</p><p>Dr Fisher had been Rector of Langham, and it was there that Constable had first met him. The bishop was to become an important patron, and his nephew, Archdeacon Fisher, a close friend. The finished composition, The Glebe Farm, is known in four versions. This one belonged to Constable’s friend and biographer, CR Leslie.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
26 August 2002 – 9 March 2003
2003-03-09
26 August 2002 – 9 March 2003
2003-03-09
2002-08-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2002-08-26
Constable
Collection based display
3 March 2006 – 1 October 2006
2006-10-01
3 March 2006 – 12 June 2006
2006-06-12
2006-03-03
National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australia)
7 July 2006 – 1 October 2006
2006-10-01
2006-07-07
National Museum of New Zealand (Wellington, New Zealand)
http://www.tepapa.govt.nz
2006-03-03
John Constable: The lessons of landscape
Loan-out
The Glebe Farm
support: 597 × 781 mm
frame: 784 × 961 × 130 mm
Bequeathed by Henry Vaughan 1900
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<span class="text14">In 1825, following the death of his old </span><span class="text15">friend Dr Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury,</span><span class="text0"> Constable decided to make a picture </span><span class="text14">of      Church Farm, Langham. He adapted </span><span class="text0">a small sketch      of the subject he had </span><span class="text15">made many years before.</span><span class="text0">
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<span class="text0">Dr Fisher had been Rector of Langham, </span><span class="text15">and it was there that Constable had </span><span class="text14">first met him. The bishop was to become </span><span class="text0">an important patron, and his nephew, Archdeacon Fisher, a close      friend. The finished <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a>, </span><span class="text13">The Glebe      Farm</span><span class="text0">, </span><span class="text15">is known in      four versions. This one </span><span class="text0">belonged to      Constable’s friend and biographer, CR Leslie.  </span>
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<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/constable-the-glebe-farm-n01823" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N01823</span></a> <b>The Glebe Farm</b> Circa 1830</p>
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<br/>Oil on canvas, 23 1/2×30 1/8 (59.7×78.1).</p>
<p>Inscribed, probably by Henry Vaughan, on a label now removed from the stretcher: ‘This picture was bought at the sale of C.R.Leslie. R.A.’; a pencil insertion after ‘bought’ reads ‘by H. Vaughan’. A second label in the same hand, now also separately preserved, transcribes the relevant entry in the Leslie sale catalogue.
<br/><i>Prov:</i>
given by the artist to C.R.Leslie (see text below); his sale, Foster 25 April 1860(97), bt. Hobson or Holson, £127.15., for Henry Vaughan and bequeathed by him to the National Gallery 1900; transferred to the Tate Gallery 1919. <i>Accession </i><span>N01823</span>.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>National Exhibition of Works of Art</i>, Leeds 1868(1232);? R.A. <i>Old Masters</i> 1872(32, as ‘Dedham Farm’); R.A. <i>Old Masters</i> 1886(30); Leeds 1913(74); <i>Loan Collection of British Masters from the National and Tate Galleries</i>, touring exhibition shown at various galleries in New Zealand and Australia 1936–7 and South Africa 1938–9(9); Tate Gallery 1971(106).
<br/><i>Lit</i>: Holmes 1902, p.248; Shirley 1937, pp.lxxii, 223; Chamot 1956, pp.260–1; Beckett 1961, Paintings: Essex (20) No.45; Hoozee 1979, No.537.
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<br/>See the entry on No.37 above for an account of Constable's ‘Glebe Farm’ pictures. The history of this version is given in the catalogue of C.R.Leslie's sale: ‘Mr. Leslie saw Constable at work on this picture, and told him he liked it so much he did not think it wanted another touch. Constable said, “Then take it away with you that I may not be tempted to touch it again.” The same evening the picture was sent to Mr. Leslie as a present’. This incident may have taken place early in 1830. A picture referred to by Constable in a letter to Leslie, datable to February of that year, sounds like No.38: ‘I think the sketch of the lane &amp; cottage would be all the better for a little of [?Jn] Dunthornes varnish - &amp; a “flat” - perhaps you will say you are not such a “flat” as to let me have it ...’ (JCC III, p.25). Leslie certainly had the picture by 22 August 1831, when Constable contemplated using it as the basis of Lucas' <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/mezzotint" title="Glossary definition for 'Mezzotint'"><span>mezzotint</span></a> of ‘The Glebe Farm’, which, in the event, was taken from No.37 above (see JCC IV, p.351).</p>
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Leslie Parris, <i>The Tate Gallery Constable Collection</i>, London 1981
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-23T00:00:00
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agricultural architecture bridge bridges and viaducts church England England, East Essex farm features landscape Langham, Glebe Farm places religious stream tower townscapes / man-made features UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions village water: inland wooded