Constable’s Six Footers: When Landscape Gains Weight 康斯特博的六英尺：当风景被赋予重量 In British art history, there is a term that belongs almost exclusively to John Constable —— the “Six Footers”. The phrase refers to a group of monumental landscape paintings Constable produced in the early nineteenth century. “Six feet”, in practical terms, means a canvas roughly 1.8 to …
Turner & Constable — Rivals & Originals Tate Britain 27 November 2025 – 12 April 2026 One of the most extraordinary coincidences in the history of British landscape painting is undoubtedly the near-simultaneous appearance of J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) and John Constable (1776–1837). Born less than a year apart, the two artists opened …
Royal Academy of Arts 12 June – 19 August 2018 This year, the Royal Academy celebrates its 250th Summer Exhibition, and to mark this momentous occasion, the exhibition is co-ordinated by Grayson Perry RA. Perry, alongside the Summer Exhibition Committee, celebrates the democracy of the world’s largest open submission contemporary art show by exhibiting a …
The V&A’s major autumn exhibition will re-examine the work of John Constable (1776-1837), Britain’s best-loved artist. It will explore his sources, techniques and legacy and reveal the hidden stories behind the creation of some of his most well-known paintings. Constable: The Making of a Master will juxtapose Constable’s work for the first time with the …
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