JOHN CONSTABLE'S long and prolific career made him one of the major "British landscape painters of the eighteenth century. He studied his native countryside carefully and made drawings and oil sketches in the open air as well as working on large pamnngs at his London studio during the winter months.

Essential Constable looks at all aspects of Constable's art, with detailed commentary on 120 of his works. Most of these are instantly recognisable as his most famous and important pieces; others are less wellknown but they are all equally essential to Constable's artistic and philosophic development.

JOHN CONSTABLE has become one of the most famous and influential landscape artists of the eighteenth century. He was "very nrolific and wanted to show that nature changed from hour to hour; his beliefs and techniques acted almost as a precursor to the Impressionist movement which was to come a hundred years later.

His most famous works were often of the countryside around his native Suffolk; paintings such as Flatfard Mill and The Haywain caused a great stir when they were first exhibited, for their ability to project a moment in the mood of nature and time.

Introduction

Portrait of John Constable, R.A., Aged Twenty

bv Daniel Gardner.

The Valley of the Stour, Looking Towards

 East Bergholt

The Valley of the Stour, with Srratord

 St Mary in the Distance

Academy Study of a Nude Male Figure

Academy Study of a Nude Male Figure

The Valley of the Stour, with Dedham

 in the Distance

Dedhaln Vale

Dedham Vale: Evening

A Mill on the Banks or'the P, iver Stour

Valley Scene, with Trees

A Wood

Susannah Lloyd

The Barker Children

Taylor Ghyll, Sty Head. Borrowdale

View in Borrowdalc

His Majesty's Ship Victory.

Head of a Girl

Portrait of'the Artist Half-Lengrh

 in a Black Coat

Epsom View.

Dlarford Lock and Mill

A Landscape Near East Bergholt: Evening

A Hayfield Near East Berghoh at Sunset

Porch of East Bergholt Church

Dedham Mill

A Cart on a Lane at Flatford

Dedham Vale

Willy Lott's House. Near Flatford Mill

Dedham Vale: View re Eangham Church

Barges on the Stout. with Dedham Church

in the Distance

Mr Gelding Constable's House,

 East Bergholt

Landscape with a Double Rainbow

auturnnal Sunset

View of Dedham from the Lane Leading

 from East Bergholr Church to Flatford

Lock on the Stout.

A Wooded Landscape Outside the Park

 Pales of-Old Hall East Bergholt, with

 a Ploughman

A Windmill at Stoke, Near Ipswich

Study of Flowers in a Hyacinth Glass

Study of Flowers in a Glass Vase

Boat-Building Near Flafford Mill

Scene on a Navigable River (Flatford Mill)

(2east Scene Near Osmington.

 with Portland Island in rhc 1)istancc

Weylnouth Bay

On the Thames Near Battersca Bridge

Houses at Putney Heath

Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead

The Stare Opening of Waterloo Bridge

 from Whitehall Stairs,June l8th, 1817

Dedham Lock and Mill

Willy Lott's House with a Rainbow .

Salisbury Cathedral with Archdeacon

 Fisher's House seen from the River.

Salisbury Cathedral and the Close

Salisbury Cathedral from the South-West

Study of Foliage