John Constable was an English landscape who was Born in Suffolk, England he is known for revolutionising the genre of landscape “I should paint my own places best”, he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, “painting is but another word for feeling”. Most of John Constables paintings were based around where he grew up” When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture”.

The painting depicts a rural scene on the River Stour between the English counties of Suffolk and Essex.

The image above is one of his most famous landscape paintings, where John presents a picture of farm life in the 18th century. Towards the left of the painting, The Building was owned by a Constable’s father and was later rented out by a farmer, which was said to have been born in the cottage and only spent a total of four days away from it. Constable’s father owned 90 acres of land surrounding this painting. John grew up in an upper class family who avoided struggle, This is not represented in his paintings as they include people from a working class background who got significantly less money than johns family. The painting “Haywain” alone shows a peaceful day compared to the crisis that was happening around them.