Charles Golding Constable (1821–1878) was a member of the British East India Company's navy, joining up in his youth. He was the second son of the painter John Constable and, on his elder brother John Charles's death in 1841, became head of the Constable family.
The Constable tomb
He oversaw the splitting-up of his father's studio collection in winter 1847/48. On his death in 1878 he was buried alongside John Charles and their parents in the family tomb at St John-at-Hampstead, Hampstead.
He was the only one of John Constable's children to have issue.[1]
References
- ↑ "Chapter XXXIII: John Francis’ Children 1870 – 1980s" are discussed in The Irish Bomfords 1617 to the Present, online. Constable's six children, and the children of Charles Golding Constable are listed. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
External links
- Sketch by John owned by Charles Golding
- The Constable family, including the painter's children are discussed in The Irish Bomfords 1617 to the Present, Chapter XXXIII: John Francis’ Children 1870 – 1980s" Retrieved 26 November 2012.
- Charles Golding Constable in "A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland"
- Constable's England, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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