Bibliograph

Late Constable, [exhibition curators, Anne Lyles, Per Rumberg ; assisted by Rose Thompson]

Type

Label

Late Constable, [exhibition curators, Anne Lyles, Per Rumberg ; assisted by Rose Thompson]

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-137) and index (pages 140-142)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Late Constable

Nature of contents

bibliographycatalogs

Oclc number

316973

Responsibility statement

[exhibition curators, Anne Lyles, Per Rumberg ; assisted by Rose Thompson]

Summary

"One of Britain's greatest landscape painters, John Constable (1776-1837) was brought up in Dedham Vale, the valley of the River Stour in Suffolk. The eldest son of a wealthy mill owner, he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1800 at the age of 24, and thereafter committed himself to painting nature out of doors. His 'six-footers', such as The Hay Wain and The Leaping Horse, were designed to promote landscape as a subject and to stand out in the Academy's Annual Exhibition. Despite this, he sold few paintings in his lifetime and was elected a Royal Academician late in his career. With texts by leading authorities on the artist, this handsome book looks at the freedom of Constable's late works and records his enormous contribution to the English landscape tradition." -- back cover

Table Of Contents

President's foreword -- Truth to painting: Constable's late work / Anne Lyles -- Majestic darkness: Constable's late drawings / Matthew Hargreaves -- Catalogue plates -- Late Constable: a timeline / Annette Wickham and Mark Pomeroy

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