Letters of John Constable: A Selection

England’s best-loved landscape painter John Constable’s letters, sharing his ideas and practices – selected, arranged and illustrated. An unparalleled insight into a creative mind and the history of romanticism.

John Constable (1776–1837) is England’s best-loved landscape painter, and the familiarity of his images can disguise how revolutionary he really was. His passionate concentration on the truth of the natural world influenced not just other painters but the whole course of romanticism,...