One of Britain’s greatest landscape painters, John Constable RA (1776–1837) was brought up in Dedham Vale, the valley of the River Stour in Suffolk. This wonderful new book which accompanies the exhibition at the Royal Academy, features texts by leading authorities on the artist and looks at the freedom of Constable’s late works, recording his enormous contribution to the English landscape tradition.
The eldest son of a wealthy mill owner, John Constable entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1800 at the age of 24, and thereafter committed himself to painting nature out of doors. His ‘six-footers’, such as The Hay Wain and The Leaping Horse, were designed to promote landscape as a subject and to stand out in the Academy’s Annual Exhibition. Despite this he sold few paintings in his lifetime and was elected a Royal Academician late in his career.
https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/late-constable-hb33357Late Constable HBhttps://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/media/catalog/product/l/a/late-constable-web.jpg21.9521.95GBPInStock/Reading/All Books/Exhibition Catalogues/Reading/All Books/Reading/All Books/Published by the Royal Academy249262277<p>One of Britain’s greatest landscape painters, John Constable RA (1776–1837) was brought up in Dedham Vale, the valley of the River Stour in Suffolk. This wonderful new book which accompanies the exhibition at the Royal Academy, features texts by leading authorities on the artist and looks at the freedom of Constable’s late works, recording his enormous contribution to the English landscape tradition.</p> <div data-content-type="row" data-appearance="contained" data-element="main"><div data-enable-parallax="0" data-parallax-speed="0.5" data-background-images="{}" data-element="inner" data-pb-style="61DD3E675BE56"><div data-content-type="text" data-appearance="default" data-element="main" data-pb-style="61DD3E675BE5F"><p>The eldest son of a wealthy mill owner, John Constable entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1800 at the age of 24, and thereafter committed himself to painting nature out of doors. His ‘six-footers’, such as <em>The Hay Wain</em> and <em>The Leaping Horse</em>, were designed to promote landscape as a subject and to stand out in the Academy’s Annual Exhibition. Despite this he sold few paintings in his lifetime and was elected a Royal Academician late in his career.</p></div></div></div><style>#html-body [data-pb-style="61DD3E675BE56"]{justify-content: flex-start; display: flex; flex-direction: column; background-position: left top; background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: scroll; border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px;}#html-body [data-pb-style="61DD3E675BE5F"]{border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}</style>00add-to-cartstore_type:ShopShopHardback19 x 1.5 x 26cm9781912520725152No
