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Mill on the River Stour - John Constable
Mill on the River Stour - John Constable

On display in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin

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One of the greatest landscape painters, Constable devoted his career to capturing nature on his canvases. He is one of Britain’s best-known artists but he sold few paintings in his lifetime.
Born near the River Stour in Suffolk, Constable spent much of his life painting the scenes of his ‘careless boyhood’ which he said ‘made me a painter’. He was depicting the area so often that it’s now commonly known as “Constable country”.
The eldest son of a wealthy mill owner, he began by working for his father but in 1799 he eventually persuaded his family to support his artistic ambitions and entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1800, aged 24.
At this time, the pastoral scenes were not fashionable and were not as highly regarded as paintings of historic scenes, which were viewed as the pinnacle of artistic achievement. After one of his early works was rejected by the 1802 Summer Exhibition, he was consoled by President of the Royal Academy, Benjamin West, who assured him: “we shall hear more of you again; you must have loved nature before you could have painted this.”
From the early 1800s Constable made a profound commitment to studying outdoors, and this became the foundation of his art. He toured the Peak District and the Lake District in the early 1800s but these mountainous regions inspired him less than scenes of Suffolk. In 1819 Constable began work on a series of six-foot canvases, with the aim of showcasing his skill as a landscape painter. These included The Leaping Horse and The Hay Wain;the latter failed to find a buyer when shown at the 1821 Summer Exhibition, but received a Gold Medal at the Paris Salon three years later.
Constable’s early struggles to establish himself as a painter also delayed his marriage to his childhood sweetheart Maria Bicknell, whose father strongly opposed the match. They eventually married in 1816 after a seven year courtship."

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