"Forget the rural idylls. This sublime show recasts John Constable
as the godfather of the Avant Garde, producing explosive,
nightmarish paintings of a vanishing world." – Jonathan Jones,
Guardian One of Britain’s greatest landscape painters, John
Constable (1776–1837) was brought up in Dedham Vale, the valley
of the River Stour in Suffolk. The eldest son of a wealthy mill
owner, he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1800 at the age of
24, and thereafter committed himself to painting nature out of
doors. His ‘six-footers’, such as The Hay Wain and The Leaping
Horse, were designed to promote landscape as a subject and to stand
out in the Academy’s Annual Exhibition. Despite this, he sold few
paintings in his lifetime and was elected a Royal Academician late
in his career. With texts by leading authorities on the artist,
this handsome book looks at the freedom of Constable’s late works
and records his enormous contribution to the English landscape
tradition.
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