Tasb lecture:A Tale of Vanity Fair: Constable's Treslove Portraits Re-discovered
Lecture by Sarah Cove: "Mrs Treslove has been sitting and we have got on pretty well- but she left me at two.... (The Tresloves) are going out of town for a week so this will stop my picture". John Constable to his wife Maria in Putney Heath, May 1826.
Until 2019, when it was brought to Sarah Cove Acr for cleaning and restoration, the whereabouts of Constable's sumptuous portrait of his neighbour in Charlotte Street, Mrs Emily Treslove, was unknown. It had come down through five generations of her family to the present owners along with a volume of her Diaries and a jewel from the flashy parure of garnet and pearl jewellery given to her by her husband Thomas Treslove qc on 7th March 1825.
This is a story illustrating how the technical study of Constable's paintings, alongside his letters and the sitter's diaries, widens our understanding of his portrait practice and the frivolity of the nouveau riche in the early 19th century.
Lecture starts at 20.00 and drinks at 19.30
Until 2019, when it was brought to Sarah Cove Acr for cleaning and restoration, the whereabouts of Constable's sumptuous portrait of his neighbour in Charlotte Street, Mrs Emily Treslove, was unknown. It had come down through five generations of her family to the present owners along with a volume of her Diaries and a jewel from the flashy parure of garnet and pearl jewellery given to her by her husband Thomas Treslove qc on 7th March 1825.
This is a story illustrating how the technical study of Constable's paintings, alongside his letters and the sitter's diaries, widens our understanding of his portrait practice and the frivolity of the nouveau riche in the early 19th century.
Lecture starts at 20.00 and drinks at 19.30
Maison Communale Salle de Conférence
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publié le 08/03/2026
publié le 08/03/2026
Mercredi: de 19:30 à 21:30
Le 8 avril
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