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  • Several paintings were confiscated, including one whose frame had a plaque engraved with the name John Constable, the English Romantic painter.

    GoodShit 2010

  • "Scott McFarland's landscape photographs depict natural environments transformed by humans to suit their desire for leisure, rest and contemplation," said Grant Arnold, Audain Curator of British Columbia Art. "Often making reference to the work of artists such as John Constable and Johann Erdmann Hummel, his images propose a parallel between the transformation of nature by human hand and the choices implicit in the act of making a photo."

    Art Knowledge News 2009

  • Even though the name plaque said 'John Constable'? "

    GoodShit 2010

  • Stuttgart Art "John Constable: Natural Painter" is the first German exhibition of oil sketches and oil paintings by the British master of landscapes, presented by the Victoria and Albert Museum collection and including "The Hay Wain" and "The Leaping Horse."

    What's on around Europe 2011

  • Also, unlike high Romantic landscape painters such as John Constable, in whose paintings the observer often stands on some unseen promontory, Van Gogh brings a landscape right up to the viewer's toes, painting with painstaking detail the bark of trees, the twists of vines, the striving thistle.

    In Philadelphia, Van Gogh's Nature Cure Dan Neil 2012

  • Towering heaps of cumulus clouds soared high into the sky like colossal cauliflower heads, turning even more dramatic in the low sunlight of the evening, adding extra colour and depth to the sky in a manner reminiscent of a John Constable painting.

    Weatherwatch: Constable's noble clouds 2011

  • They'd seen a sketch by John Constable of a cottage in the English landscape overgrown by vines and wanted something like it that would blend in with the landscape of their property.

    Home Design: A Sod Story Alastair Gordon 2011

  • Though John Constable's art sold best in France during his lifetime, the artist has risen posthumously to the status of one of Britain's most popular landscape painters.

    What's On Around Europe 2011

  • Salomon van Ruysdael's "River Landscape With a Ferry" 1649 is an especially fine example of Dutch landscape painting, whose atmospheric qualities influenced later artists, from John Constable to Vincent van Gogh.

    Collecting as a Fine Art Jonathan Lopez 2011

  • Embodying the picturesque are images of castles, ruins and rugged scenery by John Constable and Jean-Honor

    Fragments of the Natural World as Works of Art 2010

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