John Constable Prints
1776–1837 · English · Romanticism
Wall art by John Constable, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
23 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About John Constable
John Constable was born in June 1776 at East Bergholt in Suffolk, the son of a prosperous mill owner, and the few miles of the river Stour around Flatford and Dedham gave him the subjects of his whole career. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1799 and spent winters in London, but painted from oil sketches made on the spot in the valley, a practice that was unusual at the time. His large exhibition pictures, the six-footers of 1819 to 1825, turned working river scenes into monumental landscapes; The Hay Wain, shown in 1821, won a gold medal at the Paris Salon of 1824 and influenced Delacroix and the Barbizon painters, and now hangs in the National Gallery in London. In 1821 and 1822 he also made a long series of cloud studies on Hampstead Heath, each inscribed with the date, time and wind. He was elected to the Royal Academy only in 1829, at fifty-two, and died in London in March 1837. Constable looked hard at ordinary weather, wet leaves, a dappled sky, a cart in a stream, and painted it with a freshness that still reads as truthful. His pictures bring the English countryside indoors without sentiment.