Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds
Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds is an 1836 landscape painting by the English artist John Constable.[1] One of his later works, it depicts a scene in the grounds of the country estate Coleorton Hall in Leicestershire.Formerly the property of the landowner and artistic patron Sir George Beaumont before his death in 1827, it features a monument commemorating the life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the first President of the Royal Academy.The artist visited the property in 1823, when he did pencil sketches before developing it into a grander work more than a decade later.Constable shows it amongst the woodland of the estate, with a stag prominently featured.