Portrait of John Constable

Portrait of John Constable
ArtistRamsay Richard Reinagle
Year1799
TypeOil on canvas, portrait painting
Dimensions76.2 cm × 63.8 cm (30.0 in × 25.1 in)
LocationNational Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of John Constable' is a 1799 portrait painting by the English artist Ramsay Richard Reinagle. It depicts his friend and fellow painter John Constable at the age of around twenty three.[1]

The two men were both students at the Royal Academy at the time.[2] They each painted each other's portraits, both pictures focusing on the romantic air they were cultivating.[3] Reinagle was the son of the painter Philip Reinagle while Constable's family owned Flatford Mill. Producing views of "Constable Country'" in his native Suffolk, Constable would go on to become one of Britain's most celebrated landscape painters. Today the painting is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London, having been given by the Art Fund in 1917.[4]

References

  1. ^ Gayford & Lyles p.60
  2. ^ Reynolds p.16
  3. ^ Hamilton p.69-70
  4. ^ "NPG 1786; John Constable - Portrait Extended - National Portrait Gallery".

Bibliography

  • Gayford, Martin & Lyles, Anne. Constable Portraits: The Painter and His Circle. National Portrait Gallery, 2009.
  • Hamilton, James. Constable: A Portrait. Hachette UK, 2022.
  • Reynolds, Graham. Constable's England. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983.
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