John Constable

1776–1837 · Realism

John Constable was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area on the borderland of Suffolk and north Essex surrounding his home – now known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling."

40 paintings

Stoke-by-Nayland (1836)
Landscape (The Lock) (c. 1820–25)
Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead (1828)
Hampstead Heath, Looking Toward Harrow (c. 1821)
Flatford Mill from the Lock (1810)
The Wheat Field (1816)
Stratford Saint Mary from the Coombs (1800)
East Bergholt Common, View toward the Rectory (1813)
Osmington Bay (1816)
Harnham Ridge, Salisbury (1829)
Sketch for "The Opening of Waterloo Bridge Seen from Whitehall Stairs, June 18th 1817" (1819)
Study of A boat passing a lock (1823)
Harwich: The Low Lighthouse and Beacon Hill (1820)
Hampstead Heath (1827)
Helmingham Dell (Louvre) (1823)
Weymouth Bay with Approaching Storm (1818)
Mrs. James Pulham Sr. (Frances Amys, ca. 1766–1856) (1818)
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds (ca. 1825)
Stoke-by-Nayland (ca. 1810–11)
Portrait of a Woman
Stour Valley and Dedham Church (1814)
The Dell at Helmingham Park (Nelson-Atkins) (1830)
The Hay Wain (1821)
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows (1829)
Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1836)
The Chain Pier, Brighton (1826)
Valley Farm (1835)
Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill (1816)
The Vale of Dedham (1828)
Cloud Study: Stormy Sunset (1821-1822)
The White Horse (1818-1819)
Wivenhoe Park, Essex (1816)
Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close (1820)
Yarmouth Jetty (1822)
Gandish Cottage, Suffolk
Hampstead Heath (1821)
Portrait of a Girl
Portrait of Master Crosby (1808)
Sketch for A Boat Passing a Lock (1822)
The Stour (1810)