John Constable

English painter (1776-1837)

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Lived 1776–1837, aged 61

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1776–1837
Aged 61

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Constable put rural Suffolk on the map by painting the same corner of England—Dedham Vale—with such obsessive tenderness that the landscape became famous for being his. His feeling-first approach to landscape painting rewired what the genre could be.

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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".

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