John Constable
John Constable was born in East Bergholt, England, United Kingdom on June 11th, 1776 and is the Painter. At the age of 60, John Constable biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Early career
John Constable was born in East Bergholt, Suffolk, to Golding and Ann (Watts) Constable. His father, a wealthy corn merchant, was the owner of Flatford Mill in East Bergholt and later, Dedham Mill in Essex. The Telegraph, Golding Constable's little ship, was moored at Mistley on the Stour estuary and used to export corn to London. He was a cousin of London tea merchant Abram Newman. Although Constable was his parents' second child, his older brother was physically handicapped, and John was supposed to replace him. He was enrolled in a Dedham day school after a brief time at a boarding school. After leaving school, the constable worked in the corn industry, but Abram, his younger brother, took over the reins until the mills were running.
Constable began sketching trips in the Suffolk and Essex countryside, which would be the subject of a significant amount of his artwork in his youth. "The sound of water escaping from mill dams, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork make me a painter, and I am grateful," says the artist. He was introduced to George Beaumont, a collector who exhibited his prized Hagar and the Angel by Claude Lorrain, which inspired Constable. Later, when visiting relatives in Middlesex, he was introduced to John Thomas Smith, who advised him on painting but also encouraged him to stay in his father's company rather than pursue art professionally.
Constable Persuaded his father to pursue a career in art in 1799, but Golding gave him a small allowance. He took life classes and anatomical dissections, and read and copied old masters before joining the Royal Academy Schools as a probationer. Thomas Gainsborough, Claude Lorrain, Peter Paul Rubens, Annibale Carracci, and Jacob van Ruisdael's paintings were among those that inspired him during this period. He also read widely in poetry and sermons, and then became a notably articulate artist.
He resigned from his position as drawing master at Great Marlow Military College (now Sandhurst), a departure that Benjamin West (then master of the RA) warned would bring an end to his career. Constable wrote a letter to John Dunthorne in which he spelled out his ambition to become a landscape painter in that year.
His early style has many characteristics of his mature work, including a freshness of light, tone, and touch, as well as showing the compositional influence of the old masters he had studied, especially Claude Lorrain. In an age where more romantic visions of wild landscapes and ruins were fashionable, Constable's regular subjects, scenes of everyday life, were unfashionable. He made occasional trips further afield.
He was exhibiting paintings at the Royal Academy by 1803. When sailing from London to Deal before heading to China in April, he spent almost a month on the East Indiaman Coutts.
In 1806, Constable John Constable undertook a two-month tour of the Lake District. Charles Leslie, his biographer and biographer, said that the beauty of the mountains stung his spirits, and Leslie wrote: "Silent Hill was the inspiration that lifted his spirits."
In the summer, Constable Joe and the artist painted at East Bergholt. In 1811, he first met John Fisher and his family in Salisbury, England, a city whose cathedral and surrounding landscape inspired some of his best paintings.
Constable brought up portraiture, which he found dull, though he produced several fine portraits to make ends meet. "Constable's incapacity as a religious painter cannot be overstated," John Walker said of occasional religious works.
Country house painting was another source of income. Major-General Francis Slater-Rebow had him paint his country home, Wivenhoe Park, Essex, in 1816. In the grounds of Alresford Hall, the British artist also commissioned a smaller painting of the fishing lodge, which is now in the National Gallery of Victoria. Maria Bicknell's wedding was used by the constable from these commissions to pay for his Maria Bicknell's wedding.