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Article: Contrasting views of the unexpected; Terry Grimley takes a look at the Constables and surrealism on show at Compton Verney.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- July 7, 2009
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Byline: Terry Grimley
Everyone knows that John Constable is one of Britain's greatest landscape painters, but who knows anything about Constable the portrait painter? Although he never worked in a very serious professional way in this genre, it is estimated that he probably painted around 100 portraits in the course of his career, of which just over half survive. The subjects are often relatives or members of his extended social circle, giving this surprisingly substantial body of work an autobiographical dimension.
The first exhibition ever devoted to this ...