Late Constable: the final 12 years of a genius is celebrated by London’s Royal Academy
By James Brewer
A modest-sized picture in the Royal Academy exhibition Late Constable is one of the show’s most significant, and one of its most poignant.
John Constable executed Rainstorm over the Sea in small compass (23.5 by 32.6 cm) compared to his grandest works. It is an expressive and doubtless rapid study on paper laid on canvas that nevertheless counts as one of his most...