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John Constable was a 18th and 19th century English artist whose work has coincided with the literary and artistic Romanticism movement. His works included many painting and sketches of the natural world and environment which was one of the hallmarks of Romantic works.
The English painter John Constable visited Hadleigh in 1814 and made a drawing of the castle as preparation for ten oil sketches and a single painting. The oil painting Hadleigh Castle was produced in 1829 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in the same year.
Situated on the shores of the Thames Estuary, Hadleigh Castle was built in the thirteenth century by a key supporter of King John. Later confiscated, it became a Royal castle and a favoured residence of Edward III. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries it was owned by various Queens of England.
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John Constable - John Constable - London: By 1817 Constable was an established Londoner, and, with the birth of his son John that December, he became a father. With a family to support, professional recognition became essential. In order to achieve this, he began to paint on a large scale, and the 1.9-metre (6.2-foot) Stour scene The White Horse, which he showed at the 1819 Royal Academy.
When Rebecca Harris became Castle Point MP, a friend of hers spotted a framed, hand-coloured engraving, of Hadleigh Castle in Portobello Road Market, London, and thought she might like it. David Hurrell, one of our Archive Group, and a resident artist at Hadleigh Old Fire Station, retouched a photo I took of the engraving, and gives his analysis of the work below.
Hadleigh Castle, Hadleigh, Essex. England, Essex, South East England, United Kingdom.. In 1814, John Constable, the landscape painter, made a sketch of the ruins and used it to create his famous painting of the castle in 1829. The Salvation Army owns Hadleigh Farm on the hillside overlooking the Thames Estuary. It is now a commercial farm of.