Minutes of a meeting of the Constable Memorial Committee | Archives | RA Collection

Archive context

Royal Academy of Arts Archive
1. Royal Academy of Arts, official archive
  1. Records of the Secretary
    1. Correspondence from members' files
      1. Papers relating to John Constable, RA

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Reference code

RAA/SEC/10/3/2

Title

Minutes of a meeting of the Constable Memorial Committee

Date

29 Nov 1934

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

The minutes state that the Committee was nominated and convened by Sir William Llewellyn, PRA, and record that the chapter of St Paul's Cathedral had agreed to a suggestion to place a memorial tablet to John Constable in the crypt on the occasion of the centenary of his death (1 April 1937). It was decided to make an appeal early in 1935, by means of a letter to The Times, and to establish a John Constable Prize for the encouragement of landscape painting by artists of British nationality.