John Constable

He is a famous Romantic artists from England and painted many beautiful landscapes in the early 19th century. He was not extremely well-off in his lifetime and sold more paintings in France than his native England.

He married and had 7 children but was deeply scarred later in life from his wife's death of tuberculosis at the age of 41. He never quite recovered and was known to paint more stormy dark scenes after this time.

His art was considered rebellious in that he painted from studying actual nature scenes instead of making them up in his own mind. He could not have imagined how influential his work would turn out to be for the French impressionists.