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John Constable |
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June 11, 1776 - March 31, 1837
John Constable was born in East Bergholt, a village on the River Stour
in Suffolk, England. He became a great landscape painter.
The area of Dedham Vale in Suffolk is known as 'Constable Country'. Flatford Mill, the subject of one of his most famous paintings, The Haywain, was owned by his father, a brewer who was doing well in trade. Nearby Bridge Cottage is a National Trust property.
He fell in love with Maria Bicknell, a local girl whose solicitor father was personally acquainted with the king, and did not consider Constable good enough. After five years, he finally gave his consent to the marriage in 1816. After giving birth to seven children, Maria died of consumption (tuberculosis) in 1829, an event which devastated her husband.
John Constable
Nice bit of countryside that.
1776-1837
Celebrating everything that is the English countryside, Constable took up the baton of selling their own country to the Brits. Like travel adverts today his pictures encourage mass travel, which he was taking advantage off to paint his pics.
Careful use of typically expected items bring his pictures an articiality that today can seem cloying, but in his own day he was revered for bringing the countryside into the city and letting the poor see what they were missing. probably started the forment for another British Revolution, which never happened.
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