(National Gallery, London)
John Constable (1776-1837) is considered on of England's greatest landscape painters, and we offer here one of his most famous works as an example of the picturesque, the habit of viewing nature as if it were an infinite series of more or less well-composed subjects for painting. There is much in Constable's landscapes reminiscent of the descriptions of nature found in the poetry of William Wordsworth, perhaps the greatest of the English Romantic writers.