Constable worked in the corn business after leaving school, but his younger brother Abram eventually took over the running of the mills. After a brief period at a boarding school in Lavenham, he was enrolled in a day school in Dedham, Essex. Although Constable was his parents' second son, his older brother was intellectually disabled and John was expected to succeed his father in the business. He was a cousin of the London tea merchant, Abram Newman. Golding Constable owned a small ship, The Telegraph, which he moored at Mistley on the Stour estuary, and used to transport corn to London. His father was a wealthy corn merchant, owner of Flatford Mill in East Bergholt and, later, Dedham Mill in Essex. John Constable was born in East Bergholt, a village on the River Stour in Suffolk, to Golding and Ann (Watts) Constable. Plaque in East Bergholt marking the site of Constable’s childhood home His only indisputable self-portrait, drawn by an arrangement of mirrors. His work was embraced in France, where he sold more than in his native England and inspired the Barbizon school.Įarly career John Constable, Self-portrait 1806, pencil on paper, Tate Gallery London. He became a member of the establishment after he was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts at the age of 52. Although his paintings are now among the most popular and valuable in British art, he was never financially successful. Ĭonstable's most famous paintings include Wivenhoe Park (1816), Dedham Vale (1821) and The Hay Wain (1821). "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling". Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home – now known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of affection. John Constable RA ( / ˈ k ʌ n s t ə b əl, ˈ k ɒ n-/ 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition.
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