Painters [*/ ) Sky Studies | Paintings by John Constable, 1821 -1837
John Constable, Seascape Study With Rain Cloud, 1824
John Constable, Seascape Study with Rain Cloud, 1827
John Constable, Stormy Sea, Brighton, 1828
John Constable, The Sea near Brighton, 1826
Details from Brighton Beach, John Constable, 1824
Details from Brighton Beach, John Constable, 1824
John Constable, Brighton Beach, 1824
John Constable, A Storm off the Coast of Brighton, 1820s
John Constable, View at Hampstead Looking towards London, 1833
John Constable, Cloud Study, 1821
John Constable, Cloud Study, 1822“I have done a good deal of skying”
John Constable, 1821
John Constable, Cloud Study, 1821-22
John Constable, Cloud Study, 1822
John Constable, Cloud Study, 1822
John Constable, Cloud Study, 1821
John Constable, Cloud Study, 1822
John Constable, Cloud Study, 1821
John Constable, Cloud Study, 1822
John Constable, Cloud Study, 1821
John Constable, The Sea Near Brighton, 1826 John Constable, Sky Study with Rainbow, 1820s
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John Constable (1776 –1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition.
To the sky studies he added notes, often on the back of the sketches, of the prevailing weather
conditions, direction of light, and time of day, believing that the sky was “the key note, the
standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment” in a landscape painting.
In this habit he is known to have been influenced by the pioneering work of the meteorologist
Luke Howard on the classification of clouds; Constable’s annotations of his own copy of
Researches About Atmospheric Phaenomena by Thomas Forster show him to have been
fully abreast of meteorological terminology.
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