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


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

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

Where to find works by John Constable in England