The Art of John Constable

BOATBUILDING (18150 (above) The only canvas Constable painted entirely out of doors shows his father's boatyard beside the River Stour, near Flatford Mill. The barges built here carried flour from the mill downstream to Mistley, on the Stour estuary.

CHAIN PIER, BRIGHTON (1827) (above) Darkening clouds and a grey, storm-driven sea cast an air of gloom over fashionable Brighton, where Constable took his wife to convalesce during the summers of 1824 and 1825. One of his very few seascapes, this picture was completed the year before Maria died.

LEAPING HORSE-(1825)

BRIGHTON BEACH

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