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1) Constable
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John Constable was the first English landscape painter to take no lessons from the Dutch. He is rather indebted to the landscapes of Rubens, but his real model was Gainsborough, whose landscapes, with great trees planted in well-balanced masses on land sloping upwards towards the frame, have a rhythm often found in Rubens. Constable's originality does not lie in his choice of subjects, which frequently repeated themes beloved by Gainsborough. Nevertheless,...
2) Constable
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John Constable (East Bergholt, 1776 – Hampstead, 1837) John Constable fut le premier peintre de paysage anglais qui ne tira pas son enseignement des peintres hollandais. Assez proche de la vision de Rubens, c'est à Gainsborough qu'il doit tout : ses paysages, avec leurs grands massifs d'arbres bien répartis à travers le décor vallonné, possèdent un rythme souvent présent chez Rubens. Son originalité ne repose pas sur le choix de ses sujets,...
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