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John Constable

1776 - 1837

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John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures 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 (1816), Dedham Vale (1821) and The Hay Wain (1821). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Constable has received more than 1,682,104 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). John Constable is the 131st most popular painter (up from 133rd in 2019), the 267th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 264th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Painter.

John Constable is most famous for his paintings of the English countryside.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, John Constable ranks 131 out of 1,421Before him are Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Parmigianino, Juan Gris, Albrecht Altdorfer, and Odilon Redon. After him are Franz Marc, Francis Bacon, Robert Delaunay, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Man Ray, and Andrea del Sarto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1776, John Constable ranks 5Before him are Amedeo Avogadro, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Johann Friedrich Herbart, and Sophie Germain. After him are Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Caroline of Baden, Ioannis Kapodistrias, Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, Şehzade Abdullah, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, and Jean-Pierre Boyer. Among people deceased in 1837, John Constable ranks 5Before him are Alexander Pushkin, Charles Fourier, William IV of the United Kingdom, and Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden. After him are Hortense de Beauharnais, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Giacomo Leopardi, Georg Büchner, John Field, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, and François Gérard.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Constable ranks 267 out of 7,765Before him are Bede (672), Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545), Edmond Halley (1656), Jimmy Page (1944), Andrew Carnegie (1835), and David Lloyd George (1863). After him are Jeremy Irons (1948), George Everest (1790), Mary of Teck (1867), Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901), Nicholas Winton (1909), and John Keats (1795).

Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, John Constable ranks 2Before him are J. M. W. Turner (1775). After him are William Hogarth (1697), Thomas Gainsborough (1727), Joshua Reynolds (1723), John Everett Millais (1829), Louis Wain (1860), Leonora Carrington (1917), Richard Hamilton (1922), William Holman Hunt (1827), Frederic Leighton (1830), and John Tenniel (1820).