Let’s hear it for the country’s best loved landscape painter. This is the 250th anniversary of the birth of John Constable, the man who revolutionised the genre. Constable loved what he saw, and his ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Gardens, art and landscape intertwine. Artists paint views and gardens and in turn, they influence how we then ...

The gentle, rolling fields of copper, mocha and green. The ballooning clouds in vast skies. The solitary towers of medieval churches marooned on flat horizons. The River Stour, meandering along the ...

Constable’s father, Golding, was a prominent coal and grain merchant who owned many of the mills along the river which his son was to paint. While Golding expected that the younger man would follow in ...

Every time I go walking in Suffolk it feels like I’ve discovered my favourite walk. This time I’m in ‘Constable Country’, Dedham Vale on the Suffolk-Essex border, birthplace of one of the nation’s ...