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Artist: John Constable (1776 - 1837)
Nationality: British
Movement: Romanticism
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
British landscape painter, John Constable was born and raised in Suffolk, England. Although at the beginning of his career, landscape painting was a low paid and disrespected career, Constable chose that path despite the indignation of his family and friends. He married Maria Bicknell in 1816 and supported her by painting portraits. His real interest however was in painting the landscape of his birthplace, an agricultural and therefore unpopular region for landscape subjects. After creating a series of six-foot wide landscapes, Constable was granted membership of the Royal Academy and won a gold medal at the Paris Salon.


Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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David Lucas Spring, second plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint, retouched by John Constable 1830
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David Lucas A Seabeach, eleventh plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint, retouched by John Constable 1830
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David Lucas A Mill, seventeenth plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint, retouched by John Constable 1830
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David Lucas Old Sarum, fourteenth plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint, retouched by John Constable 1830
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David Lucas Mill Stream, fifth plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint, retouched by John Constable 1831
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David Lucas Hadleigh Castle near the Nore, twenty-first plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint, retouched by John Constable 1832
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David Lucas Stoke by Neyland, Suffolk, sixteenth plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint, retouched by John Constable 1830
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David Lucas John Constable Mezzotint 1843
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David Lucas A Dell. Helmingham Park.Suffolk., eighth plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint, retouched by John Constable 1830
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David Lucas Noon, fourth plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint 1830
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David Lucas A Summerland, fifteenth plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint 1831
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David Lucas Autumnal Sunset, third plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint 1831
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David Lucas A Heath, ninth plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint 1831
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David Lucas List of the Engravings in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Printed text circa 1832
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David Lucas Weymouth Bay, Dorsetshire, eighteenth plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint 1830
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David Lucas The Glebe Farm, twentieth plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint 1832
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David Lucas Yarmouth, Norfolk, tenth plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint 1832
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David Lucas Summer Evening, seventh plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint 1831
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David Lucas Preliminary page (Introduction) in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Printed album page 1832
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David Lucas Summer Morning, sixth plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint 1831
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David Lucas Preliminary page (Title page) in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Printed album page 1830
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David Lucas East Bergholt, Suffolk, frontispiece and first plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint 1831
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David Lucas A Lock on the Stour, Suffolk, thirteenth plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint 1831
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David Lucas Summer AfternoonãAfter a Shower, nineteenth plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint 1831
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David Lucas Paper cover of the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Paper cover printed on blue paper 1830 - 1834
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David Lucas River Stour, County of Suffolk, twelfth plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint 1831
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David Lucas Hampstead Heath, Middlesex, vignette and twenty-second plate in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Mezzotint 1831
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David Lucas Front and back cover of the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Cover for album of twenty-two mezzotints circa 1832
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David Lucas Preliminary page (page of verse) in the album, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (London: John Constable, 1830-[1832] Printed text page from album 1830 - 1832
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David Lucas The Lock mezzotint 19th century
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David Lucas Noon Mezzotint 19th century
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David Lucas A Mill Mezzotint 19th century
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David Lucas A Summerland Mezzotint 19th century
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David Lucas Stonehenge Mezzotint 19th century
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David Lucas Spring Mezzotint 19th century
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Mrs. James Pulham Sr. (Frances Amys, born about 1766, died 1856), 1818 John Constable (British,
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David Lucas The Glebe Farm Mezzotint 19th century
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David Lucas Yarmouth, Norfolk Mezzotint 19th century
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David Lucas Summer Evening Mezzotint 19th century
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David Lucas Windmill Near Colchester Mezzotint 19th century
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David Lucas A Cottage in a Cornfield #2 Mezzotint 19th century
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David Lucas Gillingham Mill, Dorsetshire Mezzotint 19th century
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David Lucas View on the Orwell, near Ipswich Mezzotint 19th century
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David Lucas River Stour, Suffolk Mezzotint 19th century
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David Lucas View on the River Stour Mezzotint 19th century
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David Lucas Stoke by Neyland, Suffolk Mezzotint 19th century
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David Lucas Opening of Waterloo Bridge Mezzotint 19th century
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David Lucas Sir Richard Steele's Cottage, Hampstead Mezzotint 1845
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David Lucas A Dell, Helmingham Park, Suffolk Mezzotint 19th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop"s Grounds, ca. 1825 John Constable (British, 1776-1837)Oil on canvas; 34
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David Lucas Porch of the Church at East Bergholt, Suffolk Mezzotint 19th century
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Self-Portrait with a Recent Invention
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
View at Stoke-by-Nayland John Constable (British, 1776-1837)Oil on canvas; 11 1/8 x 14 1/4 in.
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John Constable Portrait of a Woman oil on canvas 18th - 19th century
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John Constable Arundel Mill oil on paperboard circa 1835
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John Constable Frame for "Arundel Mill" oil on paperboard circa 1835
Museum of Fine Arts -
Unidentified artist, American, mid-19th century The Lady with a Red Shawl about 1840 Oil on
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Summer Morning, ca. 1830 Made by David Lucas (British, 1802 - 1881); Designed by John
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John Constable English Landscape Scenery (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855) book with mezzotint engravings 1855
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John Constable A View on Hampstead Heath with Harrow in the Distance oil on paper mounted on canvas 1822
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John Constable, British, 1776-1837 Weymouth Bay from the Downs above Osmington Mills 0 about 1816
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David Lucas Yarmouth, Norfolk Mezzotint 1830
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John Constable View on the Dell at Denham pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk 18th - 19th century
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John Constable, British, 1776-1837 St. John"s Dale, Westmoreland 1806 Watercolor on paper (on the reverse,
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John Constable - Salisbury 1829 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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John Constable - The Cornfield 1826 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London English
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John Constable - The Hay Wain 1821 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London English
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David Lucas Dairy of Cows on the Fjeld Mezzotint 19th century
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David Lucas A Reach of the hardanger Fjord Mezzotint 19th century
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David Lucas His Most Gracious Majesty, King William the Fourth Mezzotint 1830
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David Lucas Three-quarter length portrait of seated man, facing left Mezzotint 19th century
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John Constable - The White Horse 1818-1819 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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John Constable - Cloud Study c. 1822 oil on paper, laid d The Frick Collection British
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John Constable - Netley Abbey c. 1833 oil on canvas The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art British
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John Constable - Stratford Mill 1820 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London English
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John Constable - Sky study, sunset 1821-1822 oil on paper The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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John Constable - Waterloo Bridge c. 1820 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum British
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John Constable - East Bergholt 1808 oil on millboard The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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John Constable - Mrs. Mary Fisher 1816 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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John Constable - The Glebe Farm 1827 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art English
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John Constable - The White Horse 1819 oil on canvas The Frick Collection British
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John Constable - Hove beach n.d. oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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John Constable, British, 1776-1837 Stour Valley and Dedham Church about 1815 Oil on canvas 55.6
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John Constable - Hampstead Heath, Looking Toward Harrow c. 1821 oil on paper, mounte Cleveland Museum of Art British
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John Constable - Sky study with mauve clouds 1821-1822 oil on paper The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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John Constable - Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows 1831 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London English
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John Constable - Salisbury Cathedral from the River 1820 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London English
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John Constable - Study of Clouds at Evening 1822 oil on paper Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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John Constable - Wivenhoe Park, Essex 1816 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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John Constable - Parham's Mill, Gillingham 1824 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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John Constable - Dedham Lock and Mill 1820 oil on canvas Currier Museum of Art English
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Follower of John Constable, British, 1776-1837 A Heath Oil on canvas 82 x 95.5 cm
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Thomas de Leu Portrait of Charles de Bourbon, Constable de France Engraving 16th - 17th century
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John Constable - Shoreham Bay, near Brighton (1824) 1824 oil on paper laid do The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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John Constable - The Cenotaph to Reynolds' Memory, Coleorton 1833-1836 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London English
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John Constable - Cloud Study: Stormy Sunset 1821-1822 oil on paper National Gallery of Art British
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Gustave DorÈ The Constable Interrogates His Servants, illustration no. 133 on page 159 in the book Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine (Les contes drolatiques) by HonorÈ de Balzac. 1st English translation (London: John Camden
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John Constable - Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Garden 1826 oil on canvas The Frick Collection British
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John Constable - Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead 1828 oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art British
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Gustave DorÈ The Constable of Armagnac, illustration no 128 on page 153 in the book Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine (Les contes drolatiques) by HonorÈ de Balzac. 1st English translation (London: John Camden Hotten, [1874])

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (13)
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Frick Collection: Constable's Salisbury Cathedral: Two Versions Reunited

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Romanticism and the School of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection
The Cohen collection represents several artists in depth; thus, the exhibition features a varied range of work by such masters as Couture, Gericault, Daubigny, ...

Indianapolis Museum of Art: Museum Receives Major Old Master Collection
The Clowes Collection, assembled in the 1930s, 40s and 50s by George H. A. Clowes, is one of the finest private collections of Old Master art ever formed in the Midwest, said IMA director Bret Waller. The Clowes Collection includes paintings ...

Cleveland Museum of Art: Voyage of Discovery: The Landscape Photograhs of Ray K. Metzker
The show was beautifully selected by former Cleveland museum director Evan H. Turner, who also wrote for the accompanying catalogue an essay and chronology that investigates the evolution of Metzker’s photography and the influence of historical la...

Victoria and Albert Museum: Five New Painting Galleries to Open
The V&A has remarkable collections of eighteenth and nineteenth century British landscape paintings and watercolours (the national collection of watercolours is held at the V&A). Three galleries will focus on the image of landscape in Britain as...

Tate Britian: Romantic Landscape: The Norwich School of Painters, 1803-1833
This group was strong but diverse. It was described as a school only because its leaders, John Crome and John Sell Cotman, operated in Norwich as teachers and drawing masters. Neither their own work, nor that of their pupils, displ...

Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Figurative Art at the End of the Century
Many of these works have only just been acquired by the Tate and are on show in Liverpool for the first time. Together, they create a powerful spectacle and raise issues ...

Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Alan Reynolds: 50 Years after the Royal College of Art
A quest for structure and equilibrium has always been at the heart of Reynolds' work. His engagement with landscape, from his native Suffolk to the hop gardens and orchards of his adoptive Kent, was inspired in part by Constable and Samuel Palmer ...

Towner Gallery: Landscape? New Definitions through the Contemporary Art Society
The acquisitions have been made over a four-year period and are the direct result of the Towner’s inclusion in the prestigious £3.5 million Special Collection Scheme run by the Contemporary Art Society. The scheme enables 15 regional museums and g...

Marlborough Gallery: Francis Bacon: Paintings
Marlborough’s show will consist of nine works as follows: three quintessential triptychs dating from 1970, 1983 and 1986-87, each panel measuring 78 x 58 inches; a rare 1957 painting of a pope, measuring 60 x 46 1/2 inches; Study for Self Portr...

Van Gogh Museum: American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920

Although the artists were familiar with and reacted to European art, they simultaneously developed their own individual style. To shed light on the various artistic currents the exhibition is organized around themes such as American Icons, Impress...
Glen Eira Arts Complex: Call to Artists: Travelling Scholarship for Australian and UK Citizens
Artists are invited to submit works in competition for the A. M. E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prizes which will be awarded on the basis of entries submitted by each applicant in the field of traditional realism and figurative art. Th...

Frick Collection: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Toledo Museum of Art
While the collection of the Toledo Museum is considered encyclopedic, the works included in the exhibition will emphasize the period from the early Italian Renaissance to late nineteenth-century France. The selection will notably complement the h...

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WebMuseum: Constable, John
John Constable, English painter, master painter in the Romantic style
John Constable Online
John Constable - Olgas Gallery
CGFA- John Constable
John Constable biography
John Constable - Great Artists in History
Mark Hardens Artchive - John Constable
John Constable oil painting reproductions
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