Constable in Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter - Softcover
Love not landscape was the making of Constable ...John Constable and Maria Bicknell might have been in love but their marriage was a most unlikely prospect. Constable was a penniless painter who would not sacrifice his art for anything, while Maria's family frowned on such a penurious union. For seven long years the couple were forced to correspond and meet clandestinely. But it was during this period of longing that Constable developed as a painter. And by the time they'd overcome all obstacles to their marriage, he was on the verge of being recognised as a genius. Martin Gayford brings alive the time of Jane Austen in telling the tremendous story of Constable's formative years, as well as this love affair's tragic conclusion which haunted the artist's final paintings.
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Martin Gayford has been art critic of the Spectator and the Sunday Telegraph. He is currently Chief European art critic for Bloomberg. Among his publications are: The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles, The Penguin Book of Art Writing, of which he was co-editor, and contributions to many catalogues. In 2009 he co-curated the exhibition Constable Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery and Compton Verney. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children.
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Brilliant, wholly fascinating. I can't recommend this delightful book too highly -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday * Delightful...a small drama of love, frustration and despair played itself out with massive repercussions for the history of painting * Financial Times * A stunning account of Constable's coming of age as both a man and an artist * Guardian * Gayford's nuanced narrative throws much-needed fresh light, as well as real understanding, on both Constable's painting and his love life * Sunday Telegraph * A scrupulously observed tragical-comical tale * Evening Standard * Engaging, cunning, agreeable and alert to the vagaries of human behaviour * Literary Review *
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