John Constable. Beach in Brighton
John Constable
Public domain
Public domain via Catholic University of Leuven.
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About this picture
John Constable. Beach in Brighton is a public-domain painting by John Constable. The file comes from Catholic University of Leuven.
“John Constable. Beach in Brighton” (date not listed) comes out of Constable’s Suffolk studies: clouds, canals, and mills sketched in oil outdoors, then used for a larger picture.
About the artist
John Constable (1776–1837) painted the Suffolk landscape he grew up in: canals, clouds, and mills studied from oil sketches made outdoors. Those cloud studies were working notes for larger exhibition pictures.
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