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The early ownership of The Stonemason's Yard is not known.  It was in the collection of Sir George Beaumont by 1808, and was one of the paintings Beaumont donated to the British Museum in 1823, to form the nucleus of the National Gallery's nascent collection.  It passed to the National Gallery in 1828, where it continues to be exhibited.  It was extensively cleaned by John Seguier in 1852 – so extensively that a Select Committee investigated the cleaning practices of the National Gallery – and was cleaned again in 1955, and then restored, relined and remounted in 1989.  Some early retouchings, clouds now concealed under later glazings, may have been done in Beaumont's time by John Constable.
John Constable Sir George Beaumont National Gallery British Museum John Seguier