# Dedham Vale [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CONSTABLE, John]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 145 x 122 cm ## Commentary Constable's sceptical attitude to the Old Masters resulted not in rejection but in a selective reinterpretation, as in the upright view of his native landscape, Dedham Vale, painted in 1802 as a tribute to a painting by Claude, Hagar and the Angel, then owned by Constable's early mentor Sir George Beaumont \(and now in the National Gallery, London\). Constable recast the scene in a fresh, sparkling palette of greens and golds and with a light touch with the brush. ## Related artworks - [A Boat at the Sluice \(sketch\)]() - [A Lane near Flatford]() - [Boat-building near Flatford Mill]() - [Dedham Lock and Mill]() - [Dedham Vale with the River Stour in Flood \(detail\)]() - [Dedham Vale with the River Stour in Flood]() - [Flatford Mill \(detail\)]() - [Flatford Mill from a Lock on the Stour]() - [Flatford Mill]() - [Helmingham Dell]() - [Malvern Hall in Warwickshire]() - [Old Sarum]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()