John Constable

Striking coastal seascape of Chain Pier in Brighton, Sussex. Constable's busy painting shows sailors preaparing the ships and boats in the choppy waters.

• Artist John Constable
• Artwork Chain Pier, Brighton
• Image size 127 x 182.9 cm
• Material Oil on canvas
• Date of work 1826-7
• Credit Original: Oil on canvas, 127 x 182.9 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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