On my many visits to the National Gallery in Washington, DC, I always made a stop by one of Constable's paintings of Salisbury cathedral.
Mark Paglia
June 11, 1776: John Constable, an artistic master who made his name synonymous with the English landscape in all its greenness and grandeur, is born in Suffolk. A conservative who called himself a “natural painter,” he conjured up nostalgia for rural traditions that were sliding into the past.
