The Mill Stream

The Mill Stream is an 1814 landscape painting by the British artist John Constable. It features a view of the mill stream by Willy Lott's Cottage in Flatford in Suffolk and the ferry across it. Constable later used a similar view for one of his best-known works The Hay Wain in 1821.
The painting was displayed at the Royal [Academy Exhibition of 1814] at Somerset House in London. Today the work is in the collection of Christchurch Mansion overseen by the Colchester and Ipswich [Museums Service]. The Tate Britain in London has an oil sketch painted in preparation for the painting.