Sunday, October 18, 2015

SUNDAY NIGHT ART SNACK: JOHN CONSTABLE (1776–1837).

Two paintings by one of England's leading landscape artists and Romantic painters, John Constable:


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Wivenhoe Park (1816), which turned out to be Constable's breakthrough work. It was commissioned by the park's owner, Major General Francis Slater-Rebow. Barely visible to the left about halfway up is a donkey cart, with the general's daughter at the reins.


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Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill. A painting from around the same period, 1816-1817.



Good night.


MFBB.

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