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| Constable (John) (1776-1837) |
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| John Constable was born in 1776 in East Bergholt, in Suffolk, England. His father, Golding Constable, was a wealthy miller and businessman who owned watermills at Flatford and Dedham and a windmill at East Bergholt. John briefly went to school in Lavenham and then to the Grammar School in Dedham and would have walked from East Bergholt across the fields to Dedham. As a boy he used to sketch local views and then in 1795, at the age of 19, he was inspired to take up art after meeting local antiquarians. He started studying at the Royal Academy in 1799 and for the next 10 years he earned a little money copying pictures and doing portraits. It was only then that he started developing the accuracy and attention to detail which we now associate with his pictures. At the age of about 30, Constable met and fell in love with Maria Bicknell who was the granddaughter of the Rector of East Bergholt. |
Unfortunately the Rector did not approve of an impoverished artist and so the relationship was confined to occasional meetings and letters. After his father died and left John a good income, the couple married in 1816 and settled in Hampstead. John and Maria had seven children, despite Maria's bad health; when she died, in 1828, it marked the end of Constable's most productive period of painting. During his career he produced a very large number of sketches and paintings, with many being views from ‘Constable Country’. It is partially as a result of these pictures that he is considered to be one of the very best landscape artists. Langham |
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The Constable Collection: "The Young Waltonians" by Constable (John) Code: 401068 Fine art Giclee canvas print wrap on 5/8" stretchers. Canvas size 24" (609.6mm) wide x depth in pro. £74.00 (Inc.VAT). UK Postage & packing + £10.00. |
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