Pictures in the text
1. Spring, mezzotint engraving by David Lucas after John Constable, 1830 (British Museum/Bridgeman Art Library)
2. East Bergholt House, oil on canvas, c.1810 (Tate Britain © Tate 2006)
3. Girl in a Bonnet (Maria Bicknell), undated oil on board, (Private Collection/Courtauld Institute of Art)
4. Mrs Ann Constable, oil on canvas, 1804 (Tate Britain © Tate 2006)
5. John Constable – self-portrait, pencil, 1806 (Tate Britain © Tate 2006)
6. Life drawing, female nude, black-and-white chalk, 1811 (whereabouts unknown/photo Courtauld Institute of Art)
7. Golding Constable, oil on canvas, 1815 (Tate Britain © Tate 2006)
8. Maria Bicknell, oil on canvas, 1816 (Tate Britain © Tate 2006)
9. Weymouth Bay with Jordan Hill, oil on canvas, c.1816 (National Gallery of Art, London/Bridgeman Art Library)
10. Portrait of John Fisher, oil on canvas, c.1817 (Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge/Bridgeman Art Library)
11. Elm Trees in Old Hall Park, East Bergholt, pencil with slight washes, 1817 (Victoria & Albert Museum/Bridgeman Art Library)
12. Dedham Lock and Mill, oil on canvas, 1820 (Private Collection)
13. Abram Constable, oil on canvas, 1806 (Ipswich Borough Council Museums and Galleries/Bridgeman Art Library)
14. Ann and Mary Constable, oil on canvas, 1814 (Private Collection © Agnew’s/Bridgeman Art Library)
15. Cloud Study and Verses from Bloomfield, pen and ink, 1833 (Tate Britain © Tate 2006)
16. View of Somerset House Terrace and St Paul’s, from Waterloo Bridge, oil on panel, 1819 (Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection/Bridgeman Art Library)
17. A Mouse, oil on paper, 1824 (Constable family collection/Mellon Centre for British Art, London)
18. Rainstorm Over the Sea, oil on paper laid on canvas, c.1824–8 (Royal Academy of Arts, London/Bridgeman Art Library)
19. A Barge on the Stour, pencil and grey and sepia wash, 1827 (Victoria & Albert Museum/V&A Images)
20. Maria Constable, pencil, c.1828 (Constable family collection)
21. A Mermaid, pen, ink, and pencil, 1829 (Constable family collection)
22. John Dunthorne the Younger, undated self-portait, oil (Ipswich Borough Council Museums and Galleries)
23. Watermeadows at Salisbury, oil on canvas, 1820–29 (Victoria & Albert Museum/Bridgeman Art Library)
24. A Sea Beach, mezzotint engraving by David Lucas after John Constable, 1830 (British Museum/Bridgeman Art Library)
25. John Constable, by Daniel Maclise, pencil, c.1831 (National Portrait Gallery, London)
26. A Dog Watching a Watervole at Dedham, pencil and watercolour, 1831 (Victoria & Albert Museum/V&A Images)
27. John Charles Constable, oil on canvas on board (Private Collection/Sotheby’s Picture Library)
28. Folkestone, pencil and watercolour, 1833 (British Museum)
29. Old Sarum, watercolour, 1834 (Victoria & Albert Museum/Bridgeman Art Library)
30. Memorial to Sir Joshua Reynolds at Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire, pencil and gray wash, 1823 (Victoria & Albert Museum/Bridgeman Art Library)
31. John Constable, a bronze cast of his death mask of 1837 by Samuel Joseph (National Portrait Gallery, London)
Colour pictures
32. The Hay Wain, detail, oil on canvas, 1820–21 (National Gallery of Art, London/Bridgeman Art Library)
33. Golding Constable’s Kitchen Garden, oil on canvas, 1815 (Ipswich Borough Council Museums and Galleries)
34. Road to the Spaniards, oil on paper laid on canvas, 1822 (John G. Johnson Collection/Philadelphia Museum of Art)
35. East Bergholt Fair, oil on canvas, 1811 (Victoria & Albert Museum/V&A Images)
36. Maria Constable and two of her children, detail, oil on panel, 1820 (Tate Britain © Tate 2006)
37. View of Dedham from Gun Hill, oil on paper laid on canvas, 1810 (Tate Britain © Tate 2006)
38. Hadleigh Castle, oil on canvas, full-size sketch, 1829 (Tate Britain © Tate 2006)
39. Fen Lane, oil on canvas, unfinished, 1816 (Tate Britain © Tate 2006)
40. Study of Cumulus Clouds, oil on paper laid on canvas, 1 August 1822 (Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection)
41. The Leaping Horse, oil on canvas, detail from full-size sketch, 1825 (Victoria & Albert Museum/Bridgeman Art Library)
42. Salisbury Cathedral from the south-west, oil on canvas, 1820 (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC/Bridgeman Art Library)
43. Brighton Beach with Colliers, oil on paper, 1824 (Victoria & Albert Museum/Bridgeman Art Library)
44. The Skylark, Dedham, oil on board, 1830 (Private Collection/Christie’s Images Ltd)
45. View of London from Hampstead, watercolour, 1833 (Victoria & Albert Museum/V&A Images)
46. A Country Lane (formerly called ‘Stoke-by-Nayland’), oil on paper laid on board, c. 1816 (Private Collection, Christie’s Images Ltd)