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Birth
1776 (East Bergholt, Suffolk, England)
Death
1837 (London, England)
Lived/Active
United Kingdom/England
Often Known For
rural landscape painting, figure drawing
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John Constable was the first English painter to paint directly from nature in the open air, and the first to paint foliage really green. He was a painter whose brush seems to have responded with a perception of its own in accord with the artist's mood. There is an evident difference between the early years of search and fulfillment, when he painted in a happy mood, and the later years of his life when the same motifs were reinterpreted in slashing brushwork in his years of despondency followi (showing 500 of 7405 characters). |
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