His four best paintings viewed in their historical context, and consideration of the constraints that he painted under. What if?
Constable
Considered one of the leading British painters of the first half of the 20th century, she was an incessant traveller, and came from New Zealand.
The evolution of a painting of Dieppe Harbour through pencil sketches and to watercolour rough, and some problems of his oil techniques.
Superb paintings of lightning storms by Giorgione, Poussin, Delacroix, Constable, Bierstadt, Rousseau, Klimt, Bonnard, and Tom Thomson.
Examples of the work of Thomas Jones, Constable, Corot, Blechen, Boudin, Jongkind, Pissarro, Cézanne, Sargent, Monet, and more.
Were Turner’s and Cézanne’s late paintings becoming more abstract? What distinguishes representational painting from abstract?
From Constable and Turner’s views of London’s parliament ablaze, to Edvard Munch’s painting of a local manor house in flames.
Lighthouses in the paintings of JMW Turner, Constable, Monet, Signac, Peder Balke, and others, from England to Turkey.
He kept returning to the coast, and continued to paint its seasons and moods, its fury and its peace.
Includes brilliant paintings of coastal storms by Vernet, Constable, JWM Turner, and Courbet.