“My limited and abstracted art is to be found under every hedge, and in every lane, and therefore nobody thinks it worth picking up”
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John Constable
John Constable 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. "I should paint my own places best",…
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culture · English painter (1776–1837) · painter · landscape painter · architectural drafter · visual artist · artist · also John Constable, Dzhon Konsteblʹ, Dzhon Konstabŭl, R. A. John Constable, Kʻang-ssŭ-tʻê-pu-êrh, J. Constable R.A.
Born 11 June 1776 · Died 31 March 1837 · Q159297
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2026· 3 entries
“hourly do I feel the loss of my departed Angel—God only knows how my children will be brought up...the face of the World is totally changed to me”
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“Lucas showed me to the public without my faults”
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2019· 1 entry
Two drawings by Constable were found among the possessions of the late playwright and poet, Christopher Fry; the drawings later sold for £60,000 and £32,000 at auction
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1837· 2 entries
Died 1837-03-31.
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“When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.”
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1836· 3 entries
“My observations on clouds and skies are on scraps and bits of paper, and I have never yet put them together so as to form a lecture, which I shall do.. ..next summer. (1836)”
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Constable appended a text to the title: "The mysterious monument of Stonehenge, standing remote on a bare and boundless heath, as much unconnected with the events of past ages as it is with the uses of the present, carri
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Constable proposed a three-fold thesis: firstly, painting "is scientific as well as poetic"; secondly, "that imagination never did, and never can" produce art to bear comparison with reality; and thirdly, "that no great
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1835· 1 entry
His last lecture to students of the Royal Academy, in which he praised Raphael and called the Academy the "cradle of British art", was "cheered most heartily"
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1831· 1 entry
Was appointed Visitor at the Royal Academy, where he seems to have been popular with the students
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1825· 2 entries
Perhaps due partly to the worry of his wife's ill-health, the uncongeniality of living in Brighton ("Piccadilly by the seaside"), and the pressure of numerous outstanding commissions, he quarreled with Arrowsmith and los
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And kept by the artist to send to exhibitions
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1821· 3 entries
“I am determined to conquer all difficulties, and that most arduous one among the rest”
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His most famous painting The Hay Wain was shown at the Royal Academy's exhibition
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"painting is but another word for feeling
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1820· 1 entry
His second 'six-footer' Stratford Mill was exhibited
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1817· 2 entries
Constable started work on his most ambitious project to date
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Its fine and intricate execution drew much praise, encouraging Constable to move on to the even larger canvases that were to follow
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1816· 3 entries
When Constable was 40 was opposed by Maria's grandfather, Dr
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Was commissioned by Major-General Francis Slater Rebow to paint his country home, Wivenhoe Park, Essex
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Their marriage in 1816 when Constable was 40 was opposed by Maria's grandfather, Dr.
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1811· 1 entry
First visited John Fisher and his family in Salisbury, a city whose cathedral and surrounding landscape were to inspire some of his greatest paintings
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1806· 1 entry
Constable undertook a two-month tour of the Lake District
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1804· 1 entry
Did not present any paintings, sharing his frustrations with his friend Joseph Farington, noting that nothing could be gained by putting his pictures 'in competition with works which are extravagant in colour & bad ta
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1802· 1 entry
Refused the position of drawing master at Great Marlow Military College (now Sandhurst), a move which Benjamin West (then master of the RA) counselled would mean the end of his career
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1776· 1 entry
Born 1776-06-11.
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