OHN CONSTABLE’S huge landscapes (the ‘six-footers’) conjure up a long-gone rural England in his portrayal of pastoral landscapes, mills and streams. He painted what he knew and loved, so much of his early work was of the River Stour, near East Bergholt and Flatford Mill (owned by his father, a successful corn merchant), where he grew up. He wasn’t at the time, however, a conventional artist. Many
Of Constable and clouds
Jan 11, 2023
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