Oil paint on canvas
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Robert Vernon
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LandscapeThe Windmill
Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
adults
animals: mammals
architecture
cloud
cow
figure
heathland
horse
industrial
landscape
people
pool
water: inland
weather
windmill
wooded
<p>Linnell was one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest landscape artists. From the late 1840s he exclusively painted landscapes and, never venturing far from Surrey where he lived from 1851, he was described by Constable as ‘a stay-at-home painter’.Windmills were an important motif in Linnell’s oil paintings, and this scene may have been painted on Hampstead Heath. Like Constable, he probably would have sometimes worked outside, though not necessarily on this picture.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
8 May 2006 – 22 May 2007
2007-05-22
8 May 2006
2006-05-08
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2006-05-08
John Constable
Collection based display
19 October 2007 – 11 January 2009
2009-01-11
19 October 2007
2007-10-19
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2007-10-19
Visionary Landscapes
Collection based display
13 February 2009 – 30 October 2010
2010-10-30
13 February 2009 – 30 October 2010
2010-10-30
2009-02-13
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-02-13
Visionary Landscapes
Collection based display
8 June 2021 – 14 January 2024
2024-01-14
8 July 2021 – 14 November 2021
2021-11-14
2021-07-08
Museum of Art Pudong (Shanghai, China)
20 December 2021 – 8 May 2022
2022-05-08
2021-12-20
Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, South Korea)
15 June 2022 – 13 November 2022
2022-11-13
2022-06-15
ACMI (Melbourne, Australia)
25 February 2023 – 25 June 2023
2023-06-25
2023-02-25
Auckland Art Gallery (Auckland, New Zealand)
12 July 2023 – 2 October 2023
2023-10-02
2023-07-12
National Art Center (Tokyo, Japan)
26 October 2023 – 14 January 2024
2024-01-14
2023-10-26
Nakanoshima Museum of Art (Osaka, Japan)
2021-06-08
Light
Tate partnerships & programmes
Landscape(‘The Windmill’)
support: 381 × 457 mm
frame: 770 × 783 × 61 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999978" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Robert Vernon</a> 1847
<p>Linnell was one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest landscape artists. From the late 1840s he exclusively painted landscapes and, never venturing far from Surrey where he lived from 1851, he was described by Constable as ‘a stay-at-home painter’.Windmills were an important motif in Linnell’s oil paintings, and this scene may have been painted on Hampstead Heath. Like Constable, he probably would have sometimes worked outside, though not necessarily on this picture. </p>

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adults animals: mammals architecture cloud cow figure heathland horse industrial landscape people pool water: inland weather windmill wooded