John Constable

1776–1837 · United Kingdom · Realism, Romanticism

John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area on the borderland of Suffolk and north Essex surrounding his home – now known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of affection. Wikipedia

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The English countryside under big moving clouds: green fields, mills, carts and rivers, with flecks of white paint for sparkle.

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“The Hay Wain”, 1821 — National Gallery
“Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds”, 1823 — Victoria and Albert museum prints, drawings, & paintings collection
“Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows”, 1831 — Tate
“The Cornfield”, 1826 — National Gallery
“Flatford Mill”, 1816 — Tate
“The Vale of Dedham”, 1828 — National Galleries of Scotland
“Dedham Lock and Mill”, 1820 — Victoria and Albert museum prints, drawings, & paintings collection
“The White Horse”, 1819 — Frick Collection
“The Lock”, 1824
“Wivenhoe Park”, 1816
“Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill”, 1816 — National Gallery
“The Opening of Waterloo Bridge (‘Whitehall Stairs, June 18th, 1817’)”, 1832 — Tate
“The Chain Pier, Brighton”, 1826 — National Gallery
“Boat-building near Flatford Mill”, 1815 — Victoria and Albert Museum
“Stratford Mill”, 1820 — National Gallery
“Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, 1836 — National Gallery
“Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames--Morning after a Stormy Night”, 1829 — Yale Center for British Art
“Valley Farm”, 1835 — National Gallery
“Dedham Vale”, 1802 — Victoria and Albert Museum
“Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow”, 1836 — Tate
“The Glebe Farm”, 1830 — National Gallery
“Arundel Mill and Castle”, 1837 — Toledo Museum of Art
“Gillingham Bridge, Dorset”, 1823 — Tate
“Maria Bicknell, Mrs John Constable”, 1816 — Tate
“The Cottage in a Cornfield”, 1833 — Victoria and Albert Museum
“The Leaping Horse”, 1825 — Royal Academy of Arts
“Harwich Lighthouse”, 1820 — Tate
“Yarmouth Jetty”, 1824 — National Gallery
“The Mill Stream”, 1814 — Statens Museum for Kunst
“View on the Stour near Dedham”, 1822 — The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
“Malvern Hall”, 1821 — Clark Art Institute
“Waterloo Bridge”, 1820 — Cincinnati Art Museum
“Willy Lott's House from the Stour”
“Trees at Hampstead”, 1829 — National Gallery
“The Bridges Family”, 1804 — Tate
“The Wheat Field”, 1816 — Clark Art Institute
“Stour Valley and Dedham Church”, 1814 — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath” — Philadelphia Museum of Art
“The Dell at Helmingham Park (Nelson-Atkins)”, 1830 — The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
“A Boat Passing a Lock”, 1826 — Royal Academy of Arts

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