Constable In Love Love Landscape Money and the Making of a Great Painter When John Constable fell in love with Maria Bicknell granddaughter of a Suffolk country neighbour he little knew how long it would take to make her his wife The impediment to their marriage was simp
When John Constable fell in love with Maria Bicknell, granddaughter of a Suffolk country neighbour, he little knew how long it would take to make her his wife The impediment to their marriage was simple that necessary article cash He was a painter without sufficient funds to support the daughter of a prominent London lawyer, and both he and her grandfather, the formiWhen John Constable fell in love with Maria Bicknell, granddaughter of a Suffolk country neighbour, he little knew how long it would take to make her his wife The impediment to their marriage was simple that necessary article cash He was a painter without sufficient funds to support the daughter of a prominent London lawyer, and both he and her grandfather, the formidable and sometimes comical Rector of East Bergholt, disapproved of the match It would be seven long, difficult years before they could marry, but in that time he would become one of the greatest painters of the nineteenth century.Martin Gayford writes superbly about Constable s early years as a painter and Maria and John s correspondence provides the lively backdrop to the story one of lovers tiffs, London versus country life, encounters with Turner, Byron and Wordsworth, royal scandals and rivalries at the Royal Academy All the time, John Constable battles to become a painter who can earn his living and win Maria s hand.
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☆ Constable In Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter || ☆ PDF Download by Ë Martin Gayford
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☆ Constable In Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter || ☆ PDF Download by Ë Martin Gayford
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Martin Gayford is an art critic and art historian He studied philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London Over three decades, he has written prolifically about art and music in a series of major biographies, as well as contributing regularly to newspapers, magazines and exhibition catalogues In parallel with his career as an art historian, he was art critic of The Spectator magazine and The Sunday Telegraph newspaper before becoming Chief Art Critic for the international television network, Bloomberg News He has been a regular contributor to the British journal of art criticism, Modern Painters His books include a study of Van Gogh and Gauguin in Arles, The Yellow House Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles Little Brown, 2006 , which was published in Britain and the USA to critical acclaim, and has been translated, to date, into five languages Constable in Love Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter Penguin, 2009 , a study of John Constable s romance with Maria Bicknell and their lives between 1809 and 1816 and A Bigger Message Conversations with David Hockney Thames and Hudson, 2011.