John Constable, R.A.

Probably the artist’s studio sale, London, Fosters, 15–16 May 1838, lot 13 (one of two in the lot, together with a ‘Salisbury Cathedral’), to Carpenter;

Probably William Hookham Carpenter (1792–1866);

Probably his sale, London, Christie’s, 16 February 1867, lot 79, to Joseph Hogarth for £91 (a high price, suggesting a study of some importance);

With Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, circa, 1917;

Edward William Edwards (1874–1956), Cincinnati, by 1922;

By descent to his grandson, Thomas Edwards Davidson (1928–1994);

Thence by descent until sold, Cincinnati, Cowan’s Auctions, 2 October 2020, lot 3 (as after John Constable), where acquired by the present owner.

The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, 23 January 1922, p. 5 (described hanging in the Sun Room, together with a Monet of the South of France);

The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, 18 November 1928, p. 85;

L. Parris, The Tate Gallery Constable Collection, London 1981, p. 148;

G. Reynolds, The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, 2 vols, New Haven and London 1984, text vol., pp. 181–82 (referring to a lost version of the composition);

D. Congdon-Martin, ‘Sir Edward Manton’s Glebe: Completing the Provenance of Constable’s Glebe Farm Sketch c. 1830, in Tate Papers, no. 9, Spring 2008;

S. Cove, The Glebe Farm, c. 1827–30, unpublished technical report, Constable Research Project, 2021.