Planning to visit us this week? Here’s some tips to help you enjoy your visit during the heatwave

If you’d like to avoid the peak temperatures, we’ll be open from 10am – 5pm, Wed 24 – Sun 28 Jun
The shuttle bus will be running throughout the week, going between the Welcome Centre and the galleries/café
The galleries are climate-controlled, take your time exploring the art collections and exhibitions in the cool
The woodland area by the lake provides plenty of shade
You can top up your water with our free water station in the café
Cold drinks and ice creams can be purchased at both the Welcome Centre and café

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