März 1837 in London -Hampstead) war ein Vertreter der romantischen Malerei (Landschaftsmalerei) in England. In 2019 two drawings by Constable were unearthed in a dusty cardboard-box filled with drawings; the drawings sold for £60,000 and £32,000 at auction.

While these are important and practical considerations, it is the Impressionist’s vision and method of working that alienates the public. Est. Phaidon Press Ltd. , 2010 • Cormack, Malcolm. [71] "I have done a good deal of skying", Constable wrote to Fisher on 23 October 1821; "I am determined to conquer all difficulties, and that most arduous one among the rest".[72]. Although Constable was his parents' second son, his older brother was intellectually disabled and John was expected to succeed his father in the business. His impact on Impressionism was less direct but a painting like Weymouth Bay (National Gallery, London) is as advanced an essay in the plein air look as Monet's early Beach at Saint Adresse in Fort Worth. Total Sold Value $340,851,500 In his youth, Constable embarked on amateur sketching trips in the surrounding Suffolk and Essex countryside, which was to become the subject of a large proportion of his art. In his lifetime, Constable sold only 20 paintings in England, but in France he sold more than 20 in just a few years.

[66] He died on the night of 31 March 1837, apparently from heart failure, and was buried with Maria in the graveyard of St John-at-Hampstead Church in Hampstead in London. [54] He continued painting six foot canvases, although he was initially unsure of the suitability of Brighton as a subject for painting. Tate Publishing, 2006 • Gayford, Martin. 148.). Recent exhibitions demonstrate his ongoing popularity and accomplishments.Contemporary reception: Constable was not highly thought of in England at the beginning of his career.
But before the invention of photography, artists employed print-makers to make copies of their works.

Im Mai 1802 entstanden mehrere Zeichnungen von Windsor Castle und Constable lehnte einen Posten als Zeichenlehrer an der Marlow Military Academy ab, ein Schritt, der nach Benjamin West, Präsident der Royal Academy, das Ende der künstlerischen Karriere Constables bedeutet hätte. Favorite stamping grounds were his native Suffolk, Hampstead Heath near London, and the south coast. [36] While Nodier suggested French artists should also look to nature rather than relying on trips to Rome for inspiration.

Total Sold Value $87,468,580

John Constable, (born June 11, 1776, East Bergholt, Suffolk, England — died March 31, 1837, London), major figure in British Romantic landscape painting in the early 19th century. Their marriage in 1816 when Constable was 40 was opposed by Maria's grandfather, Dr Rhudde, rector of East Bergholt.

[33] Tinney loved the painting so much, he offered Constable another 100 Guineas to paint a companion picture, an offer the artist didn’t take up. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home — now known as "Constable Country" …

In 1816, he was commissioned by Major-General Francis Slater-Rebow to paint his country home, Wivenhoe Park, Essex. In 1835, his last lecture to students of the Royal Academy, in which he praised Raphael and called the Academy the "cradle of British art", was "cheered most heartily". (Figure 1 omitted) In this photograph we see the sixty-seven-year-old painter Paul Cezanne working in the open air, a practice in which he had engaged for more than thirty years, since the early 1870s, when he began to paint the landscape in the company of his friend and mentor Camille Pissarro. Cornette de Saint Cyr Paris For more information, see our, What's Happening in the Art World in October, The Vulnerable, Invincible Astronaut: Emmanuel Tolentino Santos, Inspired by the Dead: The Artwork of Rome’s Non-Catholic Cemetery. These large sketches, with their free and vigorous brushwork, were revolutionary at the time, and they continue to interest artists, scholars and the general public. Nach der Geburt des siebten Kindes Lionel Bicknell im Januar 1828 wurde Maria krank und starb im November im Alter von 41 Jahren an Lungentuberkulose.

His ever-changing light and shifting clouds descend from the seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael (1628–82) and Constable’s famous cloud studies were anticipated by previous artists, especially the sketches of the French neo-classical painter Valenciennes (1750–1819).
Seine Geschwister waren Ann (1768–1854), Martha (1769–1845), Golding (1774–1838), Mary (1781–1865) und Abram (1783–1862). In 1825, perhaps due partly to the worry of his wife's ill-health, the uncongeniality of living in Brighton ("Piccadilly by the Seaside"[57]), and the pressure of numerous outstanding commissions, he quarreled with Arrowsmith and lost his French outlet.

Somerville College, Oxford is in possession of a portrait by Constable.