Landscape painting was considered lowly subject, but Constable gives them the six-foot treatment.
Constable
Can you paint a portrait of place? Constable makes a case for it with this idyllic depiction of a country estate.
John Constable, Wivenhoe Park, Essex
Refusing to idealize, Constable fills his landscapes with the specificity of a fleeting summer day.
John Constable, View on the Stour near ...
Somewhere over the rainbow? Constable’s may have been an afterthought, but is bright with meaning.
John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
During the Industrial Revolution, Constable sold images of the landscape to the architects of its destruction.
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