John Constable

Self Portrait (1799/1804) of John Constable, at the National Portrait Gallery, London (Photo courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery)
Self Portrait (1799/1804) of John Constable, at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Master of the 19C British landscape

John Constable (1776-1837) was a great Romantic British landscapist whose scenes (especially the "happy agricultural peasant" ones) got ever more idealized—but his compositions and brushwork freer—with each passing year.

You'll find his best stuff in:

Selected works by John Constable in England


Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath, with a Cart and Carters (c.1825) by John Constable in the Tate Britain, London

Sketch for ‘Hadleigh Castle’ (c.1828–9) by John Constable in the Tate Britain, London

A trippy watercolor of Stonehenge (1835) by John Constable in the The V&A, London

Where to find works by John Constable in England