As a young student, John Constable spent the summer of 1800 sketching in the park of Helmingham in Suffolk, England. In the 1820s he returned to his pen and ink drawing and worked it into full-size oil paintings. Dell at Helmingham Park, at one time owned by the art collector John G. Johnson, was made in 1825-26 for James Pulham, a friend of Constable who lived near the park.He again returned to the subject in 1830, the painting is in the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City and I did a copy in undergraduate school at KCAI. This is probably the drawing he worked from. (-> #2)
