John Constable

Constable shows the view looking from the forecourt of Flatford Mill in Suffolk across a side stream of the river Stour.

• Artist John Constable
• Artwork The Mill Stream. Verso: Night Scene with Bridge
• Image size 21 x 29.2 cm
• Material Oil on board
• Date of work c.1810
• Credit Original: Oil on board, 21 x 29.2 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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