Monday 26 September 2016

Constable or Wainwright or Wainewright?

update on the post of July 7th 2015 about the painting wrongly  attributed  to John Constable




The Art Detectives have discovered that this painting is of Starcross - but, it looks like Powderham Church 

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The painting is by Thomas Francis Wainewright -  was withdrawn from the 1873 Royal Academy exhibition when Wainewright spotted it being exhibited as a Constable. He stated that he painted the picture in 1853 and the view is near Starcross, Devon.

See attached from The Saturday Review, Feb 8th 1873


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