John Constable

Constable probably made this vigorous sketch on Fen Lane, near Flatford in Suffolk. The brushwork, suggesting the movement of scudding clouds and of trees bristling in the wind in hues of dark blue and green.

• Artist John Constable
• Artwork A Lane Near Flatford
• Image size 20.3 x 30.5 cm
• Material Oil on paper laid on canvas
• Date of work c.1810
• Credit Original: Oil on paper laid on canvas 20.3 x 30.5 cm ® Tate, London

John Constable (1776 – 1837) was a painter who, Along with Turner, is considered one of the greatest English landscape painters of the 19th century. Born in Suffolk, the son of a miller, Constable entered the RA schools in 1799 and first exhibited in 1802. He had an eye for the picturesque through studying J. T. Smith and Gainsborough, and is credited with revolutionising landscape painting. He has been characterised as having painted only the places he knew intimately and he continued to paint scenes of Suffolk even after he settled in London in 1816. Constable lectured on landscape painting at the Hampstead Literary and Scientific Society in 1830 and at the Royal Institution in 1836. A large number of his works form part of Tate’s collection.

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