{"id":2475,"date":"2024-08-11T17:42:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T17:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecks.co.uk\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2025-10-29T06:52:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:52:52","slug":"constable-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecks.co.uk\/?p=2475","title":{"rendered":"Constable Country"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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One agenda on my bucket list was to visit East Bergholt, the birthplace of John Constable, the famous English landscape painter.\u00a0\u00a0The idea was to sit in the same place as the great man had and photograph the same scenes he depicted in his paintings.<\/p>

A nice idea; however, time and tide, over 250 years, altered the topography so much, as to make the locations of his paintings impossible to pinpoint. Either that or Constable used so much artistic licence that the scene was no more than an image in his mind\u2019s eye. \u00b9<\/p>

The only exception to this statement was the location of his painting \u2018The Hay Wain\u2019.<\/p>

The house in this painting was home to Willy Lott, the tenant farmer, who leased the farm from Constable\u2019s father, a wealthy grain merchant.
All the original trees in Constable\u2019s painting are no longer there; the new growth of trees now hide the water meadow shown in the background of \u2018The Hay Wain\u2019, although the water meadow is still there.<\/p>

The broad shape of the watercourse is still there albeit terribly overgrown. The scene is still picturesque, but not a patch on Constable\u2019s time.<\/p>

\u00b9From the kahn institute.
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\u2018And so it is a fiction that Constable is giving us. This may appear to be a snapshot of a view on the river but this is actually something very carefully composed in the artist’s studio in the city of London. – from oil sketches that the artist had done outside, it’s a distillation of his memory, of his experience, and of his skill.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Willy Lott’s cottage, as it is now, made famous by the artist’s depiction in The Hay Wain.\u00a0 \u00a0The cottage features in many of Constables works.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The following\u00a0 are a series of shots taken in and around Flatford Mill.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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And some of the surrounding villages.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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One agenda on my bucket list was to visit East Bergholt, the birthplace of John Constable, the famous English landscape painter.\u00a0\u00a0The idea was to sit in the same place as the great man had and photograph the same scenes he… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucket-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tecks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tecks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tecks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tecks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tecks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/tecks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"https:\/\/tecks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tecks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tecks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tecks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}