John Constable “The Lock,” East Bergholt, England, 1776-1837, “The Lock” 16×25”

Constable was born in 1776 in the Suffolk village of East Bergholt, where his father owned water mills on the River Stour. He spent years of inconclusive study at the Royal Academy. At thirty-three, Constable fell in love with Maria Bicknell who was twenty-one.