| John Constable, alongside JMW Turner, was a key | | | | career Constable's works were almost entirely based |
| British artist who left a mark on the art world and it's | | | | on this subject matter, and he would only revert to |
| development from the middle ages, through | | | | traditional portrait subjects when we required finance |
| Renaissance into the contemporary art movements | | | | for his life and career. This struggle is common in |
| that we enjoy today. These two artists pushed the | | | | painting and art in general as artists struggle for |
| renaissance traditional art styles into a more | | | | recognition and have to sacrifice some of their |
| emotional and colourful world which inspired the rise | | | | passion for the simple realities of life. Other famous |
| of impressionism and other famous French artists. | | | | paintings by John Constable included Boat-building near |
| Constable was key to the acceptance of landscape | | | | Flatford Mill, Wivenhoe Park, Salisbury Cathedral, The |
| paintings, which we take for granted today. During his | | | | Leaping Horse, The Cornfield and The Hay Wain. The |
| time portrait and religious paintings held sway but | | | | Hay Wain, in fact, was originally known as Landscape: |
| eventually art fans grew to respect paintings of | | | | Noon but has since become known as the former |
| British landscapes and this spread to all the corners of | | | | and is now perhaps Constable's best known work. |
| the globe. | | | | Constable's art career is an important subject for |
| Whilst it was the Impressionist movement, including | | | | study for anyone who wishes to learn about |
| the likes of Monet, Pissarro and Caillebotte that | | | | significant artists in British art, and in the rise and |
| confirmed landscape paintings in the late 19th | | | | development of contemporary art. British artists like |
| century, it was artists like Constable and Turner, | | | | Constable and Turner will always be respected as |
| classified as Romanticists, who laid the groundwork | | | | delivering art which developed movements and they |
| for their considerable success. | | | | still inspire modern artists today. Their works can still |
| Constable's most famous paintings include Dedham | | | | be found in many British and American museums and |
| Vale of 1802 and The Hay Wain of 1821, and later | | | | galleries, with regular exhibitions in London. |
| more successful works were to follow. During his | | | | |