Late Constable / exhibition curators: Anne Lyles, Per Rumberg assisted by Rose Thompson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lyles, Anne, curator.

Rumberg, Per, 1975- curator.

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constable, John, 1776-1837--Exhibitions.

Constable, John.

Constable, John, 1776-1837.

Landscape painting, English--19th century--Exhibitions.

Landscape painting, English.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

142 pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 27 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Royal Academy of Arts., 2021.

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.0With 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.

Notes:

First published on the occasion of the exhibition "Late Constable", Royal Academy of Arts, London, 30 October 2021-13 February 2022.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-137) and index.

Contains:

Constable, John, 1776-1837. Paintings. Selections.

ISBN:

1912520729

9781912520725

OCLC:

1255597030