Constable Portraits
27 June 2009 – 6 Septmeber 2009
About the
exhibition
John Constable (1776 – 1837) is renowned as a landscape artist, yet his portraits are rarely seen and far less well-known. Spanning thirty years and featuring over 40 works this exhibition will for the first time take the viewer deeper into Constable’s landscapes, revealing the people who occupied his world.
The exhibition contained paintings and drawings of his family, close friends and children, interspersed with Constable’s landscape paintings of the areas surrounding his homes. The exhibition set out to support Lucian Freud’s claim that Constable was a key figure in the history of English portrait painting.
Exhibition organised by the National Portrait Gallery
