John Constable oil painting England, da Vinci, Dali, Monet

John Constable
English Romantic artist
born 1776 - died 1837

Constable, John (1776-1837). English painter, ranked with Turner as one of the greatest British landscape artists.
Although John Constable showed an early talent for art and began painting his native Suffolk scenery before he left school, his great originality matured slowly.

He committed himself to a career as an artist only in 1799, when John Constable joined the Royal Academy Schools and it was not until 1829 that John Constable was grudgingly made a full Academician, elected by a majority of only one vote. In 1816 John Constable became financially secure on the death of his father and married Maria Bicknell after a seven-year courtship and in the fact of strong opposition from her family. During the 1820s John Constable began to win recognition: The Hay Wain (National Gallery, London, 1821) won a gold medal at the Paris Salon of 1824 and Constable was admired by Delacroix and Bonington among others. His wife died in 1828, however, and the remaining years of his life were clouded by despondency.
After spending some years working in the picturesque tradition of landscape and the manner of Gainsborough, John Constable developed his own original treatment from the attempt to render scenery more directly and realistically, carrying on but modifying in an individual way the tradition inherited from Ruisdael and the Dutch 17th-century landscape painters. Just as his contemporary William Wordsworth rejected what John Constable called the `poetic diction' of his predecessors, so Constable turned away from the pictorial conventions of 18th-century landscape painters, who, John Constable said, were always `running after pictures and seeking the truth at second hand'. Constable thought that `No two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world', and in a then new way John Constable represented in paint the atmospheric effects of changing light in the open air, the movement of clouds across the sky, and his excited delight at these phenomena, stemming from a profound love of the country: `The sound of water escaping from mill dams, willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts and brickwork, I love such things. These scenes made me a painter.' - John Constable oil painting England, da Vinci, Dali, Monet - John Constable oil painting Leonardo da Vinci, Monet –Dali oil paintings John Constable Bio by da Vinci oil paintings England of England Dali oil painting, Monet.

The titles of oil painting old master John Constable

4  Weymouth Bay2 
4  Wooded Landscape 
5 John Constable A Church porch  by England paintings Leonardo da Vinci oil painting Dali Monet
5  A View on the Stour near Dedham 
5  Boat Building 
5  brighton WMM 
5 John Constable Flatford Mill  by England paintings Leonardo da Vinci oil painting Dali Monet
5  Flatford Mill CR 
5  Hadleigh Castle 
5  Hampstead Heath 
5 John Constable Ladies From The Family Of Mr William Mason Of Colchester  by England paintings Leonardo da Vinci oil painting Dali Monet
5  Salisbury Cathedral 
5  The Hay Wain 
5  The leaping horse CGF 
5 John Constable The Mill Stream  by England paintings Leonardo da Vinci oil painting Dali Monet
5  The Valley farm 
5  The White Horse 
5  The Young Waltonians 
5 John Constable View of Dedham  by England paintings Leonardo da Vinci oil painting Dali Monet
5  Wivenhoe Park 
5  Wivenhoe Park Essex 
6  Dedham Vale Morning 
6 John Constable Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows  by England paintings Leonardo da Vinci oil painting Dali Monet
6  Stratford Mill 
6  The Cornfield