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This painting depicts a memorial to the painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, built by Sir George Beaumont in the grounds of his home at Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire, in 1812. Beaumont planned to redesign his gardens to include other memorials dedicated to his friends and the people he admired. The poet William Wordsworth spent about a month at Coleorton in the summer of 1810 composing inscriptions for the memorials. When Constable visited Coleorton in 1823, he made a pencil drawing of the monument. Ten years later, he began to turn the pencil drawing into an oil painting, which he was to entitle Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He returned to the canvas three years later, and finished it in time for the Royal Academy exhibition of 1836.
Title
Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds, erected in the grounds of Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire by the late Sir George Beaumont, Bt.
Date
1833-6
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 132 x W 108.5 cm
Accession number
NG1272
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by Miss Isabel Constable as the gift of Maria Louisa Isabel and Lionel Bicknell Constable, 1888
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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