John Constable

Book Review: “John Constable: A Portrait” — The Slow Triumph of a Great British Landscape Painter

March 20, 2023
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John Constable, Flatford Mill,

James Hamilton’s biography of British landscape painter John Constable is a highly accomplished, beautifully composed, revealing, and richly entertaining work of scholarship.

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Visual Arts Review: The Twin Towers of British Landscape Painting — Compare and Contrast

February 2, 2019
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One sees how the keen observation and “truth to nature” that critic John Ruskin espoused was put into action by John Constable and J.M. W. Turner.

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