Constable Bequest

The Constable Bequest was an 1888 bequest made to the British nation by Isabel Constable, the only surviving child of the Regency era artist John Constable. The bequest was made in the name of both Isobel and her late siblings. It included oil paintings, watercolours, sketches and other materials from the career of Constable.^[1] It featured a number of paintings Constable had displayed at the Royal Academy of Arts.

The donation is today distributed amongst several major London galleries notably the Tate Britain, the National Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Many of the drawings went to the British Museum.^[2]

• The Church Porch, East Bergholt, 1810
• Flatford Mill, 1817
• Harwich Lighthouse, 1820
• Hampstead Heath with the Salt Box, 1820
• Trees at Hampstead, 1821
• View of Lower Terrace, Hampstead, 1822
• Gillingham Bridge, 1823
• The Cottage in a Cornfield, 1833
• Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1836
• Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow, 1836

• Turner Bequest, an 1851 gift by Constable's colleague and rival J.M.W. Turner

• Jackson, Anna M.F.A. V & A: A Hundred Highlights. Victoria and Albert Museum, 2001.