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Description: | Mezzotint. 'The face of the World is totally changed to me', wrote Constable after the death of his wife, Maria, mother to their seven children, from tuberculosis in 1828. Over the following years his work changed dramatically and he began to produce more abstracted paintings, with an increasingly textured surface, using a palette knife to apply the paint. Critics responded damningly and light-hearted ridicule of Constable’s work was commonplace and continued into the 1830s. Between 1830 and 1832, in an attempt to counter negative press, Constable published a set of mezzotint engravings of ‘English Landscapes’, which were accompanied by explanatory texts and engraved by David Lucas. The volume stated that the subjects were ‘taken from real places; they are mostly rural, and are meant particularly to characterise the scenery of England.’ When the publication failed to be a success, Constable wrote to a friend: 'every gleam of sunshine is blighted to me in the art at least. Can it therefore be wondered at that I paint continual storms?' | Subjects: | tower topography rope church tree horse landscape C19th lock (waterway device) towpath barge/canal boat dog man river | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | David Lucas (Engraver) | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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