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The Lock (Constable) an 1824 painting by English artist, John Constable.

The Lock is one of six paintings that make up the Stour series of large-scale rural works, that Constable exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1819 and 1825. After its exhibition in 1824, the Morning Post commented: "Mr Constable contributes a landscape composition which for depth, sparkling light, freshness and vigorous effect exceeds any of his works."^[1]

James Morrison (1789-1857) of Balham Hill, London, and Basildon Park, Berkshire, by whom acquired for 150 guineas on the opening day of the 1824 Royal Academy exhibition, and by descent to his grandson, Colonel James Archibald Morrison (1873-1934), at Basildon Park, until this was sold in 1929, and subsequently by inheritance through his daughter Mary, wife of Major John Dent-Brocklehurst of Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire; The Trustees of the Walter Morrison Picture Settlement; Sotheby's, London, 14 November 1990, lot 128 (sold £10,780,000). Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, on loan to the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 1992-2012.

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