"Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large ""six-foot"" paintings, and the first in the ""Stour series"" which later included ""The Hay Wain"". It is owned and exhibited at the Tate Britain gallery in London. ""Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River)"" is painted in oil on canvas. It depicts a working rural scene from Suffolk, as two lighter barges and their crew progress up the"
"Hay Wain"" is revered today as one of the greatest British paintings, when it was originally exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1821 (under the title ""Landscape: Noon""), it failed to find a buyer. It was considerably better received in France where it was praised by Théodore Géricault. The painting caused a sensation when it was exhibited with other works by Constable at the 1824 Paris Salon (it has been suggested that the inclusion of Constable's paintings in the exhibition was a tribute to Géricault, who died early that year). In that exhibition, ""The Hay Wain"" was singled out for"
"On the death of his friend Mr. Young, Vaughan bought the painting from the former's estate; in 1886 he presented it to the National Gallery in London, where it still hangs today. In his will Vaughan bequeathed the full-scale oil sketch for ""The Hay Wain"", made with a palette knife, to the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum). ""The Hay Wain"" was voted the second most popular painting in any British gallery, second only to Turner's ""Fighting Temeraire"", in a 2005 poll organised by BBC Radio 4's ""Today"" programme. On 28 June 2013 a protester, reported to"
"British Art', a role since taken on by Tate Britain; artists represented are William Blake, James Barry, Henry Fuseli, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Sir David Wilkie, William Mulready, William Powell Frith, Millais and Hippolyte Delaroche. Although some of Constable's works came to the museum with the Sheepshanks bequest, the majority of the artist's works were donated by his daughter Isabel in 1888, including the large number of sketches in oil, the most significant being the 1821 full size oil sketch for ""The Hay Wain"". Other artists with works in the collection include: Bernardino Fungai, Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Domenico di"
"Constable, is visible on the far left. The scene takes place near Flatford Mill in Suffolk, though since the Stour forms the border of two counties, the left bank is in Suffolk and the landscape on the right bank is in Essex. ""The Hay Wain"" is one of a series of paintings by Constable called the ""six-footers"", large-scale canvasses which he painted for the annual summer exhibitions at the Royal Academy. As with all of the paintings in this series Constable produced a full-scale oil sketch for the work; this is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London."
"a gold medal awarded by Charles X of France, a cast of which is incorporated into the picture's frame. The works by Constable in the exhibition inspired a new generation of French painters, including Eugène Delacroix. Sold at the exhibition with three other Constables to the dealer John Arrowsmith, ""The Hay Wain"" was brought back to England by another dealer, D. T. White; he sold it to a Mr. Young who resided in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. It was there that the painting came to the attention of the collector Henry Vaughan and the painter Charles Robert Leslie."
"Salem (Vosper painting) Salem is a 1908 painting by the English painter Sydney Curnow Vosper, depicting a scene within Capel Salem, a Baptist Chapel in Pentre Gwynfryn, North Wales. It is noteworthy as a depiction of Welsh piety, the traditional Welsh national costume, and for a contentious belief that the devil is depicted within it. Mass reproductions throughout the early and mid 20th century ensured the image became famous throughout Britain. The painting has been described as an icon of Wales, much as The Hay Wain is iconic of England. Vosper had found success as a watercolour painter before coming"
"Kennard. Peter Kennard Peter Kennard (born 17 February 1949) is a London-born and based photomontage artist and Senior Research Reader in Photography, Art and the Public Domain at the Royal College of Art. Seeking to reflect his involvement in the anti-Vietnam War movement, he turned from painting to photomontage to better address his political views. He is best known for the images he created for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in the 1970s–80s including a détournement of John Constable's ""The Hay Wain"" called ""Haywain with Cruise Missiles"". Because many of the left-wing organisations and publications he used to work"
"England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Edmund de Waal Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal, OBE (born 10 September 1964) is a British artist, and author. He is known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels and has received several awards and honours for his work. He wrote ""The Hare with Amber Eyes"" (2010) and ""The White Road"" (2015). De Waal was born in Nottingham, England, the son of Esther Aline (née Lowndes-Moir) and Rev. Dr Victor de Waal, who became the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral. His grandfather was Hendrik de Waal, a Dutch businessman who moved to England. His grandmother Elisabeth"
"church across the quintessentially English water meadows The scene is set under a towering tree and a dramatic, cloud-filled sky. ""The Lock"" is the fifth of six paintings that make up the ""Stour series"" of large-scale rural works, that Constable exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1819 and 1825. The painting is the only one of the series which remains in private hands, with the more famous ""The Hay Wain"" in the National Gallery, London. After its exhibition in 1824, ""The Morning Post"" commented: ""Mr Constable contributes a landscape composition which for depth, sparkling light, freshness and vigorous effect exceeds"
"after 1859, and was not rediscovered until the late 1990s. In 1867 Jane Hay achieved her greatest professional success with ""The Florentine Procession"", also known as ""The Burning of the Vanities"", which was exhibited by Henry Wallis at the French Gallery in London. This painting is now in the collection of Homerton College, Cambridge. Her later life is not well documented, and her date of death is not known. Jane Benham Hay Jane Benham (born 1829, also Jane Benham Hay and Jaine Benham Hay) was a prominent English painter and illustrator of the Victorian period. She was associated with two"
"Louis Wain Louis Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings, which consistently featured anthropomorphised large-eyed cats and kittens. In his later years he may have suffered from schizophrenia (although this claim is disputed among specialists), which, according to some psychiatrists, can be seen in his works. Louis William Wain was born on 5 August 1860 in Clerkenwell in London. His father was a textile trader and embroiderer; his mother was French. He was the first of six children, and the only male child. None of his five sisters ever married."
"The Hay Harvest The Hay Harvest (also known as Haymaking), is an oil on wood painting created by Pieter Bruegel (c. 1525-1569), in 1565. The most important of the Lobkowiczes' Northern pictures, it was hung in the dining room of the Antwerp merchant Niclaes Jongelink. This picture was originally part of a series of six panels, each presumed to represent two months of the year – in this case June and July. In 1594 all six panels were given by the city of Antwerp to Archduke Ernst, Governor of the Netherlands. It is believed that the whole series was selected"
"the most covetable bit of landscape this year, and showing good promise, it seems to me, if the painter does not overwork himself needlessly. The execution of the whole by minute and similar touches is a mistake. His oil paintings often used spots of pure colour, a consequence of his interest in colour theory, which may have pre-empted the pointillism strand of Impressionism that developed elsewhere in Europe. Henry Clarence Whaite Henry Clarence Whaite often referred to as Clarence Whaite (1828–1912) was an English artist best known for his landscape paintings of Wales. Having spent the earlier part of career"
"The Harvest Wagon The Harvest Wagon is the name of two paintings by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough. The first was done around 1767 and is today owned by the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, in Birmingham, England. The later painting was done around 1784 and is part of the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. The later painting is the better known of the two. It was donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario by Frank P Wood. It is one of the most prominent pieces in the collection of the AGO. Both paintings depict a group of"
"Edmund de Waal Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal, OBE (born 10 September 1964) is a British artist, and author. He is known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels and has received several awards and honours for his work. He wrote ""The Hare with Amber Eyes"" (2010) and ""The White Road"" (2015). De Waal was born in Nottingham, England, the son of Esther Aline (née Lowndes-Moir) and Rev. Dr Victor de Waal, who became the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral. His grandfather was Hendrik de Waal, a Dutch businessman who moved to England. His grandmother Elisabeth was a member of the"
"Associate of the Royal Academy. In 1821 he showed ""The Hay Wain"" (a view from Flatford Mill) at the Academy's exhibition. Théodore Géricault saw it on a visit to London and praised Constable in Paris, where a dealer, John Arrowsmith, bought four paintings, including ""The Hay Wain."" It was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1824, winning a gold medal. Of Constable's colour, Delacroix wrote in his journal: ""What he says here about the green of his meadows can be applied to every tone"". Delacroix repainted the background of his 1824 ""Massacre de Scio"" after seeing the Constables at Arrowsmith's"
"Benjamin Haydon Benjamin Robert Haydon (; 26 January 178622 June 1846) was a British painter who specialised in grand historical pictures, although he also painted a few contemporary subjects and portraits. His commercial success was damaged by his often tactless dealings with patrons, and by the enormous scale on which he preferred to work. He was troubled by financial problems throughout his life, which led to several periods of imprisonment for debt. He committed suicide in 1846. He gave lectures on art, and kept extensive diaries that were published after his death. Haydon was born in Plymouth, the only son"
"Henry Payne (artist) Henry Albert Payne RWS, also known as ""Henry Arthur Payne"", (1868 – 4 July 1940) was an English stained glass artist, watercolourist and painter of frescoes. Payne was one of the Birmingham Group of Artist-Craftsmen who formed around Joseph Southall and the Birmingham School of Art in the late nineteenth century. He was involved in several of the group's collective projects, most notably the decoration of the chapel at Madresfield Court, which numbers among the seminal achievements of the Arts and Crafts movement. Born in the King's Heath area of Birmingham, Payne studied under Edward R. Taylor"
"John Constable John Constable, (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the naturalistic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home – now known as ""Constable Country"" – which he invested with an intensity of affection. ""I should paint my own places best"", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, ""painting is but another word for feeling"". Constable's most famous paintings include ""Wivenhoe Park"" of 1816, ""Dedham Vale"" of 1802 and ""The Hay Wain"" of 1821. Although his paintings"
"Farm. William Lott (1761 - 1849), a tenant farmer, resided at Gibeons Farm all his life and spent only four nights away from this house in the whole of his life. He is buried at St Mary the Virgin Churchyard in East Bergholt. Willy Lott's Cottage Willy Lott's Cottage is a house in Flatford, East Bergholt, Suffolk, England that features in several John Constable paintings, notably ""The Hay Wain"". The earliest part of the building is sixteenth century. The property is Grade I listed to reflect its importance ""as part of the Flatford Mill group"" and ""its significance in the"
"be connected with Fathers 4 Justice, glued a photograph of a young boy to the painting while it was on display at the National Gallery. The work was not permanently damaged. It has been suggested that the reason for the wagon stopping at the ford was to allow the river water to cool the horses' legs and to soak the wheels. In hot dry weather, the wooden wheels would shrink away from their metal rims. Wetting the wheels reduced the shrinkage and kept the outer metal band in place. The Hay Wain The Hay Wain is a painting by John"
"‘History of England,’ 1746–7; ‘The Compleat Angler,’ 1759; ‘London and its Environs described,’ 1761; ‘Ethic Tales and Fables,’ William Wilkie's ‘Fables,’ 1768 (eighteen plates); Henry Chamberlain's ‘History of London,’ 1770; and Oliver Goldsmith's ‘Traveller,’ 1774. His book illustrations show Hayman's influence. He also published numerous plates in the ""Oxford Magazine"" and other periodicals. He exhibited ‘stained drawings,’ i.e. designs outlined with the pen and washed with indian ink, and occasionally larger drawings in watercolours, at the exhibitions of the Society of Artists in Spring Gardens, 1760–1767, and designed the frontispiece to the catalogue in 1762. Samuel Wale Samuel Wale (1721?"
"The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides is a pencil, ink and watercolour on paper artwork by the English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake (1757–1827). The work was completed between 1824 and 1827 and illustrates a passage from the ""Inferno"" of the ""Divine Comedy"" by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). The work is part of a series which was to be the last set of watercolours Blake worked on before his death in August 1827. It is held in the Tate Gallery, London. Blake was commissioned in 1824"
"Weaver Hawkins Harold Frederick Weaver Hawkins (1893–1977) was an English painter who specialized in ""ambitious, sometimes mural-sized, modernist allegories of morality for an age of atomic warfare and global over-population."" Hawkins was born on 28 August 1893 in Sydenham, an area of London, England. He was the eldest of five sons of architect Edgar Augustine Hawkins and his wife Annie Elizabeth, née Weaver. Harold attended Dulwich College from 1906 to 1910, and then Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. World War I derailed his intention to become an art teacher. He enlisted in the Queen's Westminster Rifles and was seriously"
"Hayward Davenport Hayward Montague Davenport (1874–1959), usually referred to as Hayward M. Davenport, was an English maritime painter and pharmacist. His most notable work is a large watercolour entitled ""Oak and Steel"", which was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1894. Other works exhibited at the Royal Academy include ""A View of Hampton Court Palace"". He painted extensively for commission before 1901, principally for the captains of the ships depicted. In 1901, on the death of his grandfather, John Thistlewood Davenport, Davenport gave up painting to assume his role as Chairman of J. T. Davenport & Sons, a"
"Another art form introduced through the church was stained glass, which was also adopted for secular uses. Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547–7 January 1619) - ""the first native-born genius of English painting"" - began a strong English tradition in the portrait miniature. The tradition was continued by Hilliard's pupil Isaac Oliver (c. 1565–bur. 2 October 1617), whose French Huguenot parents had escaped to England in the artist's childhood. Other notable English artists across the period include: Nathaniel Bacon (1585–1627); John Bettes the Elder (active c. 1531–1570) and John Bettes the Younger (died 1616); George Gower (c.1540–1596), William Larkin (early 1580s–1619), and"
"Peter Kennard Peter Kennard (born 17 February 1949) is a London-born and based photomontage artist and Senior Research Reader in Photography, Art and the Public Domain at the Royal College of Art. Seeking to reflect his involvement in the anti-Vietnam War movement, he turned from painting to photomontage to better address his political views. He is best known for the images he created for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in the 1970s–80s including a détournement of John Constable's ""The Hay Wain"" called ""Haywain with Cruise Missiles"". Because many of the left-wing organisations and publications he used to work with"
"The Haywain Triptych The Haywain Triptych is a panel painting by Hieronymus Bosch, currently housed in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. A date of around 1516 has been established by means of dendrochronological research. The central panel, signed ""Jheronimus Bosch"", measures 135 by 200 centimeters and the wings measure 147 × 66 cm. The outside shutters feature a version of Bosch's ""The Wayfarer"". The painting was part of a group of six acquired by king Philip II of Spain in 1570, and shipped to El Escorial four years later. It was later sold to the Marquis of Salamanca, and"
"as Jean Perréal and Jean Prévost (an artist from Lyon who worked in stained glass), have proven untenable in the light of subsequent research. The term ""Teutonicus"", or ""German"" included Flemings at this date. Jean Hey Jean Hey (or Jean Hay) (fl. c. 1475 – c. 1505), now generally identified with the artist formerly known as the Master of Moulins, was an Early Netherlandish painter working in France and the Duchy of Burgundy, and associated with the court of the Dukes of Bourbon. Little is known about Hey, whose style has led to speculation that he may have studied under"
"somewhat damaged during an attempted robbery when the thieves tried to cut the painting out of its frame. The Harvest Wagon The Harvest Wagon is the name of two paintings by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough. The first was done around 1767 and is today owned by the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, in Birmingham, England. The later painting was done around 1784 and is part of the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. The later painting is the better known of the two. It was donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario by Frank P Wood. It is"
"Chatfield. Benjamin Haydon Benjamin Robert Haydon (; 26 January 178622 June 1846) was a British painter who specialised in grand historical pictures, although he also painted a few contemporary subjects and portraits. His commercial success was damaged by his often tactless dealings with patrons, and by the enormous scale on which he preferred to work. He was troubled by financial problems throughout his life, which led to several periods of imprisonment for debt. He committed suicide in 1846. He gave lectures on art, and kept extensive diaries that were published after his death. Haydon was born in Plymouth, the only"
"Willy Lott's Cottage Willy Lott's Cottage is a house in Flatford, East Bergholt, Suffolk, England that features in several John Constable paintings, notably ""The Hay Wain"". The earliest part of the building is sixteenth century. The property is Grade I listed to reflect its importance ""as part of the Flatford Mill group"" and ""its significance in the work of the artist John Constable"". The Cottage was restored in the 1920s after a revival of interest in John Constable's paintings. It has been renamed Willy Lott's House because this is the name Constable used in his paintings. It is owned by"