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Yarmouth Jetty
John Constable1822
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Yarmouth Jetty
- Creator: John Constable
- Date Created: 1822
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 31.7 × 50.8 cm (12 1/2 × 20 in.)
- Provenance: John Gibbons [1777-1851], Corbyn's Hall, Staffordshire, and London;[1] by inheritance to his son, the Reverend Benjamin Gibbons [1824-1894], Waresley House and Waresley Court, Worcestershire, and London;[2] (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 26 May 1894, no. 6); purchased by (Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London) for Sir Charles Clow Tennant, 1st bt. [1823-1906], The Glen, near Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, Scotland; by descent in the family to his great-grandson, Colin Christopher Paget Tennant, 3rd baron Glenconner [1926-2010], The Glen;[3] sold November 1975 through (Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London) to Mrs. Ruth Carter Stevenson [1923-2013], Fort Worth; bequest to NGA.[4] [1] Gibbons was an ironmaster and art patron from Edgbaston near Birmingham, and he had a gallery specially built for his collection at his London home, 16 Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park. See: Kathryn Moore Heleniak, "John Gibbons and William Mulready: The Relationship between a Patron and a Painter," _The Burlington Magazine_ 124, no. 948 (March 1982): 136-141. [2] Rev. Gibbons lent the painting to the 1890 Winter Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. [3] The 3rd baron's father, Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd baron Glenconner (1899-1983), was still living when the painting was sold to NGA's donor, and the 2nd baron would have been the Lord Glenconner who lent the painting to a 1951 exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. However, documents in NGA curatorial files given by the donor all name Colin Tennant as the painting's owner. [4] At the time of her 1975 purchase of the painting, the NGA donor was married to J. Lee Johnson III. She married Johnson in 1946 and they were divorced in 1978; she married John "Jack" Stevenson in 1983. In 1991 Mrs. Stevenson promised the painting as a bequest to the NGA.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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