
John Constable (1776–1837)Romantic · 1810s–1830sPainted here after this hand, never after their pictures
Romantic 1776–1837
John Constable
English weather, a lock, a wet green.
Gone 189 years, so the hand is everyone’s. We describe it to the painters: the light, the ground, the palette, the stroke. The picture is yours.
Default palette: River Light
What shall we hang here?The line above becomes the first.
Painted here 3 judged
The hand, three times over
Each of these was painted in this studio in this hand and passed the art gate before it hung. Nothing here is a photograph of a painting.






