John Constable
artist
Our books editor picks out some of the highlights of the months ahead
Under the National Treasures scheme, 12 UK museums are mounting exhibitions around the loan of masterpieces from the National Gallery
For more than 30 years, the National Gallery has invited artists to respond to the art inside. Here are three highlights
A blockbuster show focused on Turner and Constable plus a vast survey of Nigerian modernism are also in the pipeline
The drawing, which was first sold by the Yorkshire auction house in 2021, depicts Dover harbour from an East India company ship
The artist’s final period, marred by personal loss, saw him move away from topographical accuracy to embrace a more synthetic form of picture-making
The oil sketch, Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds, has never appeared at auction before and is expected for sell for between £2m to £3m this December in London
Sworder's auction house is selling the work, which is one of many by the Romantic painter depicting the area around Dedham Vale where he grew up
In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist talks about being part of the great landscape painting tradition
Ten works are due to go on display at the Museo de Arte de Ponce
Nicholas Serota says the document, which recommends the restitution of a Constable from the gallery’s collection, contains multiple inaccuracies
Beaching a Boat, Brighton, has been claimed by the heirs of Baron Ferenc Hatvany
Constable and Turner experts may go
Now on at Tate Britain
The gallery catalogued both works as genuine, though experts made no secret of their ambivalence
The opening of new galleries and the division of the museum’s collection with Tate Modern have realised Sir Henry Tate’s vision of a national gallery for British art. Three rooms for Constable and one each for Hogarth and Blake
Constables go to Tate and eighteenth-century works to V&A
Two Constables and three small paintings discovered to be missing from storage
Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams discuss what we can learn from these new pictures