John Constable (RA)
'Dedham Vale'
Great Britain
1802
Oil on canvas
Museum no. 124-1888
Given by Isabel Constable, daughter of the artist

Constable based this study on the work of another artist. He rarely did this. However, here he used 'Hagar and the Angel', which the French artist Claude Lorrain painted in 1646. Constable esteemed Claude as 'the most perfect landscape painter the world ever saw'.