John Constable, the 19th century landscape artist, has a somewhat fusty reputation, said Laura Freeman in The Times. His work is viewed as quaintly old-fashioned, while the phrase “Constable country” ...
John Constable, shown in a self portrait from about 1800, gained notoriety after his death John Constable was born in 1776 in East Bergholt, Suffolk, as the eldest son of a wealthy mill owner. He did ...