Showing posts with label Thomas Francis Wainewright. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Francis Wainewright. Show all posts

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The painting is by Thomas Francis Wainewright -  was withdrawn from the 1873 Royal Academy exhibition when Wainewright spotted it being exhibited as a Constable.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


Sunday, 26 July 2015

Constable or Wainwright?

Where is this?
painting of thatched roof of long, low cottage in cornfield. church tower on horizon

painting of thatched roof of long, low cottage in cornfield. church tower on horizon




The painting is called 'Cottage in a Cornfield'. It's in the Manchester Art Gallery. In 2006, the Tate Gallery said that it wasn't by John Constable. So who painted it?

Discussion on the web suggests that the location might be Starcross. UK Art Detective on the web

and that the painter was  Thomas Francis Wainewright.

Perhaps we could help by verifying the location. The only church near to Starcross with a plain tower is St Clement's Church at Powderham 


The tower on All Saints, Kenton, has pinacles on each corner


Neither St Mary's Cofton
nor St Paul's Starcross has a tower



If  you can help the Art Detectives in their quest to discover the painter and the location, please comment below

Thankyou