Given by the artist to George Constable (1792-1878), Arundel, Sussex, United Kingdom [1]
By descent to his son, George S. Constable (1818-1896), Arundel, Sussex, United Kingdom [2]
Stephen G. Holland
His sale, London, Christie’s, 25 June 1908, no. 14
[Purchased by Colnaghi] [2]
[Shares split with Knoedler & Co., 30 June, 1908]
Sold to Mildred Anna Milton (later Williams) (1873-1939), New York and Paris, 30 September 1910 [3]
Gift to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor with lifetime interest, 1928
Transferred to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1940
Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972

[1] George Constable was John Constable’s patron (no relation) and was a brewer in Arundel.
[2] New York 1983, no. 63, p. 174 (entry by Graham Reynolds) cites a 7 November 1883 letter from George S. Constable which states: “I have in my possession some small pictures painted by Constable…among them the last sketch from nature Constable painted ‘The Old Water Mill at Arundel.’ He painted it on the spot and gave it to my Father.”
[3] Getty Research Institute, Knoedler & Co. records, Knoedler stock book 5, page 161, row 40, no. 11679, http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2012m54b5.

Seattle Art Museum, March 7–May 6, 1951. “Masterpieces of Nineteenth Century Painting and Sculpture ,” no cat. no.

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, August 1951. “Old Masters,” no. 9.

Phoenix Art Museum, December 1962–January 1963. “English Landscape Painters," no. 33.

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 16–Sept. 4, 1983. “Constable’s England,” no. 63 (as Sketch for Arundel Mill and Castle).

Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, January 30–February 23; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, March 1–March 30; Kofu, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, April 5–May 11; Yokohama, Sogo Museum of Art, May 16–June 17, 1986. “John Constable,” no. 77.

New York, Salander–O’Reilly Galleries, Inc., May 9–June 25, 1988. “John Constable R.A. (1776–1837): An Exhibition: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, Mezzotint,” no. 50.

Leslie, C.R., Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, R.A., London: Medici Society, 1937, pgs. 335, 337.

California Palace of the Legion of Honor: Illustrated Handbook of the Collections, San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1942, repr. pg. 62; 1944, repr. pg. 70; 1946, repr. pg. 76.

Jespersen, Albert V., “Arundel Mill by John Constable,” Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor 8, no. 3 (July 1950), pgs. 1–6, repr. pgs. 3–4.

Toledo Museum of Art: European paintings, Toledo, OH: Toledo Museum of Art, 1976, pg. 40.

Hoozee, Robert, L’opera completa di Constable, Milan: Rizzoli, 1977, pg. 153, no. 701, repr.

Morse, John D., Old Master Paintings in America, New York: Abbeville Press, 1976, pg. 56.

Small, Mary R., “Four Oil Sketches: the Artist at Work,” Triptych 1 (Winter 1981), pgs. 10–11, fig. 4.

Reynolds, Graham, Constable’s England, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1983, pgs. 9, 22, 174, repr. 175, no. 63.

Reynolds, Graham, John Constable, exh. cat., Tokyo: Yomiuri Shimbun, 1986, no. 77, repr.

Fleming–Williams, Ian, “Tokyo / Constable,” The Burlington Magazine 128, no. 998 (May 1986), pg. 384.

Cormack, Malcolm, “Letter from Tokyo, Constable in Japan,” Apollo 123, no. 292 (June 1986), pg. 428.

Cormack, Malcolm, Constable, Oxford: Phaidon, 1986, pgs. 241–242, repr. pg. 242.