John constable :: John constable

John constableWhat made Constable different from the majority of his contemporaries was his attitude towards the things that he saw. He was not, like so many other landscape fine artists, a conscious seeker of the picturesque. As an artist he was virtually self-taught and his periods of formal study amounted to small(a) more than process of directive discipline. His real master was his own sensitive and perceptive eye (Peacock, 15). It was through a study of nature rather than by a study of academic principles that his artistic philosophy was evolved. It was at East Bergholt on the Suffolk side of the river Stour on 11 June 1776 that artist John Constable was born. The put forward where John was born is now disappeared, but its prosperous Georgian solidity exists for us in a number of his paintings (Peacock, 15). Golding, Jonhs father, was a milling machine and the possessor of water mills at Flatford and Dedham, and two windmills at East Bergholt (Taylor, 10). The Consta bles were a large family, John was the fourth of six children. Though much is not enter of Johns first school experince , he was sent to Lavenham at age seven (Shirley, 39). There like most of the pupils, ill-used, he finished it in Dedham grammar school under a Dr. Thomas Grimwood. John did not do well in his studies to justify seeking a career in the church building like his father had wished (Taylor, 11). In fact, Constables only record of excellence at Dedham was in penmanship, and so he was quickly directed into the family business, change state locally known as the handsome miller (Shirly, 39). For a year John worked in his fathers mills and so acquired first-hand knowledge of the miller s trade. In the mills what John learned probably stood him in a better stead that all the formal instruction in art he would ever receive (Peacock, 16). In 1796 he went on an apprenticeship in London. John apprenticeship to John Thomas Smith, a draughtsman and engraver, known as ant iquity Smith. Constable assisted by making sketches that might be used as subjects for his work. Golding Constable grew impatient and dismissed his sons savvy for painting as a young mans whim, and with the need for help in the mills, Golding summons John back to Bergholt (Taylor, 17).