Born at East Bergholt in Suffolk, John Constable was the son of a miller. He claimed that the Suffolk countryside which surrounded him as a child ‘made him a painter’. In 1806, he visited the Lake District and in 1827 settled in Hampstead. Constable’s paintings ‘The Hay Wain’ and ‘View on the Stour’ were awarded the Gold Medal at the Paris Salon in 1824. The great success of these and other works exhibited in France had a significant effect on the development of the Barbizon School of landscape painters and works of the Romantic Movement. After Constable’s sudden death in 1837, a large collection of his work was bequeathed to the Victoria and Albert Museum by his daughter.

Places

Subjects

landscape C19th, Victorian Genre, wheat, evening, sunset, horse, autumn, man, woman, field, path, house

Materials & Techniques

mezzotint

Artist

David Lucas (1802 - 1881)
John Constable (1776 - 1837)

Title

Autumnal Sunset

Date

published 1831

Medium

Mezzotint

Acquisition

Purchased from Ganymed Press, March 1969

GAC number

8324