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Artist: John Constable (1776 - 1837)
Nationality: English
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: (40)
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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...

Further Artwork and Information:

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
John Constable prints from Barewalls

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