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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Constable has received more than 1,787,555 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). John Constable is the 127th most popular painter (up from 131st in 2019), the 239th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 267th 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 127 out of 2,023Before him are Arnold Böcklin, Andrea del Sarto, Gustave Moreau, Parmigianino, Gerrit Dou, and Hans Memling. After him are Carl Larsson, Franz Marc, Jean Fouquet, Jan Steen, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, and Jan Brueghel the Elder.

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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, Ioannis Kapodistrias, Caroline of Baden, Şehzade Abdullah, Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, and Barthold Georg Niebuhr. Among people deceased in 1837, John Constable ranks 6Before him are William IV of the United Kingdom, Alexander Pushkin, Hortense de Beauharnais, Charles Fourier, and Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden. After him are Giacomo Leopardi, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Georg Büchner, François Gérard, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, and John Field.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Constable ranks 239 out of 8,785Before him are Syd Barrett (1946), Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900), Benjamin Disraeli (1804), William Wordsworth (1770), John Law (1671), and Edward the Black Prince (1330). After him are Jeremy Irons (1948), Ken Miles (1918), Ken Follett (1949), Jimmy Page (1944), Phil Collins (1951), and Francis Galton (1822).

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), John Everett Millais (1829), Thomas Gainsborough (1727), Joshua Reynolds (1723), Louis Wain (1860), William Holman Hunt (1827), Leonora Carrington (1917), Thomas Cole (1801), Thomas Lawrence (1769), and Richard Hamilton (1922).