"A masterpiece of British art, John Constable's The Hay Wain (1821), will go on show next year in Suffolk, east England, to mark the 250th anniversary of the artist's birth. The famed painting, which was made in Constable's London studio, will be shown in the artist's home county for the first time as part of the exhibition Constable: Walking the Landscape (11 July-4 October 2026) at the Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich."
"In Ipswich, The Hay Wain will be reunited with preparatory sketches drawn from the Ipswich collection. The painting will also be shown alongside "significant loans" from the Tate, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Academy of Arts and the National Galleries of Scotland. The Hay Wain refers to the wooden wagon (wain) used for transporting cut and dried meadow grass (hay). The house on the left in the picture was owned in Constable's time by the tenant farmer Willy Lott."
John Constable's The Hay Wain (1821) will be exhibited in Suffolk at Christchurch Mansion, 11 July–4 October 2026, for the artist's 250th birth anniversary. The painting will be loaned from the National Gallery and reunited with preparatory sketches from the Ipswich collection. The work will be displayed alongside loans from the Tate, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Academy of Arts and the National Galleries of Scotland. Two further Christchurch Mansion exhibitions will run in 2026–27 as part of the Constable 250 project. The project is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Just Stop Oil activists glued themselves to The Hay Wain in 2022.
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