Stoke-by-Nayland

Museum record 4758: Stoke-by-Nayland by John Constable. A verified entry point for discovery.

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“What say you to a summer morning?” John Constable wrote of this painting in a letter to a friend. Even after many years living in London, Constable continued to portray the countryside, dear to him from boyhood. Stoke-by-Nayland lies a few miles from his native village of East Bergholt in Suffolk. In this view, he divided the canvas between a brilliant, airy vista toward the hamlet on the left and a shady, tunnel-like country lane leading off to the right. Constable explained in his letter that the pain…