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John Constable

Also known as Dzhon Konsteblʹ, Dzhon Konstabŭl, R. A. John Constable, Kʻang-ssŭ-tʻê-pu-êrh, J. Constable R.A., Constable, J. Constable, R.A. Constable

English painter (1776-1837)

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John Constable was an English painter who lived from 1776 to 1837 and is known for his landscape paintings, particularly of the English countryside. He is considered an important figure in art history for helping to establish landscape painting as a major form of artistic expression in the 19th century.

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1934-10-05
Active to: 2026-03

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Quotes

“I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much... imagine to yourself how a purl must look through a burnt glass.”
“There is room enough for a natural 'painture'. The great vice of the present day is bravura, an attempt to do something beyond the truth. In endeavouring to do something better than well, they do what in reality is good for nothing. Fashion always had, & will have, its day — but truth (in all things) only will last, and can only have just claims on posterity.”
“When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.”
“I have been living a hermit-life, though always with my pencil in my hand.. .How much real delight have I had with the study of landscape this summer! Either I am myself improved in the art of seeing nature, which Sir Joshua call painting, or nature has unveiled her beauties to me less fastidiously. Perhaps there is something of both, so we will divide the compliment.”
“It is so ambiguous as to be scarcely intelligible in some parts (and those the principal), yet as a whole, it is novel and affecting.”
“But You know, Landscape is my mistress — 't is to her that I look for fame — and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.”

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Image: John Constable by Daniel Gardner, 1796.JPG

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date of birth: 1776-06-11
date of death: 1837-03-31
Commons category: John Constable
Commons gallery: John Constable
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name in native language: John Constable
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21 objects attributed to John Constable, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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John Constable (/ˈkʌnstəbəl, ˈkɒn-/; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) 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".

Constable's most famous paintings include Wivenhoe Park (1816), Dedham Vale (1828) and The Hay Wain (1821). Although his paintings are now among the most popular and valuable in British art, he was never financially successful. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts at the age of 52. His work was embraced in France, where he sold more than in his native England and inspired the Barbizon school.