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Prior to Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill, Constable made a small oil sketch ‘Weymouth Bay’, 1816, now in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. He is believed to have hastily painted this sketch on location. The sketch is about half the size of the National Gallery painting, which is believed to have been painted back at the vicarage where the couple were staying. The third, is a larger and more accomplished version of the National Gallery painting. It was exhibited at the British Institution under the name ‘Osmington Shore, near Weymouth’, in 1819. The painting now has the title ‘Weymouth Bay with Approaching Storm’ and hangs in the Louvre in Paris.
British Institution Weymouth Bay Weymouth Osmington Bowleaze Cove Louvre National Gallery London Paris Victoria & Albert Museum