He painted the natural detail of the location in a quite original fashion, using paint brush, palette knife and his fingers to give variety to the application of paint. 71 and 142).Sir George Beaumont gave Claude’s original painting, Landscape with a goatherd and goats c.1636, to the National Gallery, London, in 1826. Constable, along with J. M. W. Turner, is considered one of the greatest landscape painters of early 19th-century Britain. In 1799 he was a probationer, and in 1800 a student at the Royal Academy schools. We have removed the tickets from your shopping cart. 24, Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1990, p. 129). His most famous paintings include Wivenhoe Park of 1816,Dedham Vale of 1802 and The Hay Wain of 1821. John Constable, RA (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. His work was embraced in France, where he sold more works than in his native England and inspired the Barbizon school. Charles Rhyne, however, noted that according to an ordnance survey map a well was located in this area, and that this would have made it a natural camping site for gypsies (C. Rhyne, ‘Constable’s first two six-foot landscapes’, Studies in the History of Art, vol. If you do not agree to our use of cookies, He was very prolific, generally preferring local scenery rather than exotic locations as subjects. This is the same state as the previous work, however it has been printed with less ink and the image is therefore lighter. SC003728), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Like Thomas Gainsborough, Constable was influenced by Dutch artists such as Jacob van Ruisdael. We have removed the tickets from your shopping cart. John Constable (1776 - 1837) | National Gallery, London. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling". The dome of St Paul’s in the air, realizes Michael Angelo’s idea on seeing that of the Pantheon – ‘I will build such a thing in the sky’ (Beckett VI, p. 231). All these details changed in subsequent proofs. National Gallery Flowers, luxury flowers UK free next day delivery. A French expression meaning ‘in the open air’. your use of our website may be impaired. If you do not agree to our use of cookies, Buy online today at the National Gallery Shop. Throughout his life Constable was devoted to the work of Claude Lorrain (1604/5–1682) – from around 1800, when he first admired the paintings by Claude in Sir George Beaumont’s collection (Beckett II, p. 24), to June 1836, a year before his death, when he praised ‘the inimitable Claude’ in a lecture he presented to the Royal Institution. In thus paying homage to Claude, Constable also indicated that his own work was worthy of comparison with Claude’s. The Gallery is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Reynolds also noted that gypsies were frequently to be seen in East Anglia and that the inclusion of this detail does not infringe Constable’s rule that only actual or probable figures should appear in his landscape paintings. ... Constable; Order by 5pm for free Next Day Delivery Tuesday - Saturday . Each Constable painting has been recreated as a high quality digital reproduction available as a print, framed print or canvas print. cookies being used (except for cookies which are strictly necessary).