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Study of the trunk of an elm tree (1821) - John Constable Oil on Canvas London, V&A Museum From V&A Museum: “Constable probably painted this remarkable sketch in Hampstead. Its uncompromising realism has an almost photographic quality. The artist’s friend and biographer C. R. Leslie recalled: ‘I have seen him admire a fine tree with an ecstasy of delight like that with which he would catch up a beautiful child in his arms’.”

Study of the trunk of an elm tree (1821) - John Constable

Oil on Canvas

London, V&A Museum

From V&A Museum:

“Constable probably painted this remarkable sketch in Hampstead. Its uncompromising realism has an almost photographic quality. The artist’s friend and biographer C. R. Leslie recalled: ‘I have seen him admire a fine tree with an ecstasy of delight like that with which he would catch up a beautiful child in his arms’.”

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