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Constable (JOHN English landscape painter)

JOHN, English landscape painter; born in East Bergholt, Suffolk, June 11, 1776; son of a miller. He studied at the Royal Academy; began with portraits and history, but finally fixed upon landscape as his finally fixed upon landscape his vocation. The National Gallery has his best pictures, "The Cornfield," "The Valley Farm," and "The Haywain."

In 1824 some of his pictures were exhibited at the Paris Salon, and excited great interest among the French artists.

To these pictures of Constable a more powerful influence upon modern French landscape art has been ascribed than the facts will warrant. Paul Huet, Théodore Rousseau, and Diaz were all working before Constable's pictures went to France; but they were working in obscurity. Georges Michel, one of the greatest of these men (born 1763, died 1843), was entirely independent of Constable; but he was hardly known to his CONSTANTINE with it by a long covered bridge across the Rhine. The city has manufactories of cotton goods, carpets, chemicals, and sacking. Constance is said to have been founded in 378 A. D. by Constantius Chlorus as a bulwark against the Alemanni. In the Middle Ages, when it reached the height of its prosperity, it was frequently called Kostnitz. It was annexed to the Austrian dominions in 1549, and to Baden in 1805. Pop. about 30,000.