John Constable – His Life and Work
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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John Constable was one of our two most renowned landscape painters and the painter par excellence of the English countryside, to which, like Wordsworth, he was utterly devoted, with a love, only excelled by that for his short-lived wife, Maria Bicknell and his children. Whilst largely reliant for his reputation in his lifetime on a few wealthy patrons, his was an enduring influence, first on his French contemporaries, Delacroix, Gericault, Corot and Theodore Rousseau, then later, the Impressionists. Living in a rapidly changing world, he found comfort in Nature, that which he most readily understood and yet his art in subject, though conservative, was revolutionary in form: Brian Armstrong
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