1. John Constable
‘Flatford Mill’
T. Oglezneva 751

2.  Born in Suffolk
 The son of a mill-
owner
 1800 - entered the
Royal Academy

3.  tardy recognition
 1819 – was
made an
associate of the
Royal Academy
 1829 - made a
full academician
 Influence on
Romantics and
Impressionists

4. ‘I associate my careless boyhood with
all that lies on the banks of the Stour.
Those scenes made me a painter and I
am grateful - that is, I had often thought
of pictures of them before ever I
touched a pencil.’

5. date of creation: circa 1817
size: 101,6 127
displayed at: Tate Britain
medium: oil

6. depicted working people

9. Impasto technique

11. large preparatory sketches