PAINTERS’ PARADISE
The great English artist Thomas Gainsborough, born in 1727 in the Suffolk town of Sudbury on the River Stour, once mused that he wanted nothing more than to “walk off to some sweet village, where I can paint Landskips and enjoy the fag End of Life in quietness and ease…”
Separated by 16 miles and five decades, John Constable, born at East Bergholt in 1776, would be even more specific in expressing his love for England’s countryside when he declared: “I associate my careless boyhood with all that lies on the banks of the Stour; those scenes made me a painter.”
To this day the River Stour, connecting the two artists,
