Memorial to John Constable
Created by Alfred Turner
Date: 1936
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: statue
Material: processed and vegetal - plaster
Technique: modelled
Exhibitions and other Events
Created for Leighton Fund (Royal Academy of Arts), 1896-1951
1936 (Presumed)
Makers, Owners and Exhibitors
Commissioned by Royal Academy of Arts
1936 (Presumed)
Commissioned by the Royal Academy through the Leighton Fund. The Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1936' (1937), notes that 'in January the Council decided that a Memorial to John Constable, R.A., should be erected in the Crypt of St. Paul's through the Leighton Fund, and commissioned Mr. A Turner, R.A., to design it. A plaster model to the Memorial was approved by the Council in November, and Mr. Turner proceeded to complete the work so that it should be ready for erection in time for the Centenary of Constable's death (April 1, 1937)' (p. 33).
Citing this record
'Memorial to John Constable', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib4_1265116436, accessed 21 May 2013]
