Ramsay Richard Reinagle
British · 1776–1837
British landscape painter who transformed the genre through close, direct observation of clouds, light, and vegetation, producing canvases of unprecedented meteorological sensitivity. The Hay Wain and Dedham Vale elevated English countryside painting to the level of European history painting, influencing the Barbizon School and the development of French Impressionism.
Until Oct 4
Landmark loans reunite The Hay Wain with Constable's own Suffolk landscape
"Constable gets caricatured as a conservative. In reality he is a conservationist. The Hay Wain, his most elegiac work, is about space and time."
Until Sep 20
Constable's Hampstead years explored through paintings, prints and letters
"Others (like me) may be put off by his somewhat patrician perspective: a landowner surveying a plot in which everyone is busy at work, driving cows or ploughing fields. This small show at Hampstead's Burgh House offers something like an olive branch to Constable haters."
