John Constable

British, 1776 - 1837

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English painter (1776-1837)

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Richard Houston, The Burgomaster, c. 1760, mezzotint on laid paper, Paul Mellon Fund, 2001.118.13

The Burgomaster

Richard Houston · c. 1760 · mezzotint on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2001.118.13

We look across an expanse of a flat, grassy lawn at the towering spire of a stone church outlined against billowing clouds in this horizontal landscape painting. The lawn is dappled with light filtering through a line of trees with thick, green canopies to our left. The trees take up almost the left half of the composition, and they line a dirt path where three people walk. Tiny in scale, the people are painted with strokes of slate blue, red, white, and black. A few animals, perhaps cows, graze on the lawn near more trees on the far side of the green. Beyond the trees, the church sits on the horizon, which comes about a quarter of the way up the composition. Minuscule touches of yellow, black, and red may suggest more people in the deep distance. The pale blue sky is nearly filled with puffy parchment-white and mauve-tinged clouds.
John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close, 1820, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.108

Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close

John Constable · 1820 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1937.1.108

Bibliography

1845

  • Leslie, Charles Robert. Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, Esq. R.A.. 2d ed., enl. London, 1845.

1962

  • Beckett, R. B., ed. John Constable's Correspondence. 6 vols. London (Historical Manuscripts Commission), 1962; Ipswich (Suffolk Records Society, vols. 6, 8, 10, 11, 12), 1964-1968.

1965

  • Reynolds, Graham. Constable: The Natural Painter. London, 1965.

1970

  • Beckett, R. B., comp. John Constable's Discourses. Ipswich (Suffolk Records Society, vol. 14), 1970.

1973

  • Taylor, Basil. Constable, Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors. London; New York, 1973.

1975

  • Parris, Leslie, Conal Shields, and Ian Fleming-Williams. John Constable: Further Documents and Correspondence. London (Tate Gallery) and Ipswich (Suffolk Records Society, vol. 18), 1975.

1976

  • Fleming-Williams, Ian. Constable, Landscape, Watercolors and Drawings. London [Tate Gallery], 1976.

  • Parris, Leslie, Ian Fleming-Williams, and Conal Shields. Constable: Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings. Exh. cat. Tate Gallery, London, 1976.

1979

  • Hoozee, Robert. L'opera completa di Constable. 1st ed. Milan, 1979.

1983

  • Rosenthal, Michael. Constable: The Painter and His Landscape. New Haven and London, 1983.

1984

  • Parris, Leslie and Ian Fleming-Williams. The Discovery of Constable. London, 1984.

  • Reynolds, Graham. The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable. 2 vols. New Haven and London, 1984.

1986

  • Cormack, Malcolm. Constable. Oxford, 1986.

1987

  • Bermingham, Ann. Landscape and Ideology: The English Rustic Tradition, 1740-1860. London, 1987: 87-155.

  • Rosenthal, Michael. Constable. New York, 1987.

1992

  • Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 27-29.