Late Constable at the Royal Academy: unmasking ‘a fiercely experimental modern artist’

Show brings together host of thrilling canvases produced by the painter in last 12 years of his life

Constable painting of Stonehenge
Stonehenge, 1835, by John Constable
(Image credit: Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

John Constable has had to wait almost 200 years to get a solo show at the Royal Academy, said Rachel Campbell-Johnston in The Times. Given his reputation now, that might seem odd to us; but I doubt it would have surprised him: he was rather used to being overlooked.

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