The artist's studio
By descent to his son, Captain Charles Golding Constable (1821-1878)
By descent to his widow, Anna Maria (Blundell) Constable (1841-1893) [1]
Charles G. Constable’s posthumous sale, London, Christie’s, 11 July 1887, lot 76, as “Gospel Oak, near Jack Straw’s Castle, Hampstead, 1822”
Purchased by ‘Hughes’ [2]
Dr. H.A.C. Gregory, 1949 [3]
[Thomas Agnew and Sons, London]
A.L. Dewar, 1956 [4]
Whitney Warren Jr., San Francisco
Bequest to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1988


[1] Per London 1880, no. 12.
[2] Copy of annotated sale catalogue, curatorial file, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
[3] Per London 1949, no. 15.
[4] Per Manchester 1956, no. 37.

London, South Kensington Museum, 1880–1883, no. 12 (collection loan from Mrs. A. M. Constable, the artist’s daughter–in–law).

London, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1949. “An Exhibition of Sketches and Drawings by John Constable from the Collection of Dr. H.A.C. Gregory,” no. 15.

Manchester City Art Gallery, 1956. “John Constable, 1776–1837,” no. 37.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, October 8, 1988–January 8, 1989. “Selections from the Bequest of Whitney Warren."

Canberra, Australia National Gallery, November 14, 1992–January 31, 1993; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, February 19–May 10, 1993; Auckland City Art Gallery, June 5–August 29, 1993. “Rembrandt to Renoir: European Masterpieces from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,” no. 23.

Hoozee, Robert, L’opera completa di Constable, Milan: Rizzoli, 1979, no. 339, rep.

Reynolds, Graham, The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 1984, pg. 104, no. 22.19, pl. 346.

Orr, Lynn Federle, Marion C. Stewart, and Steven A. Nash, Rembrandt to Renoir: European Masterpieces from The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, exh. cat., Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1992, pg. 66, no. 23, repr.