Further resources
Works in the Tate Collection:
Constable ![]()
TateShots:
In The Frame: A cloud-spotter's guide to art
Gavin Pretor-Pinney is founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society and author of The Cloudspotter’s Guide. Applying his spotter’s eye to the Tate Collection he extols the joys of clouds in art, from Constable and his strata cumulus to Turner the storm-chaser
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TATE ETC. articles:
The Final Visitor by Steven Sherrill, TATE ETC. Issue 7, Summer 2006 ![]()
The Edge of England by Lavinia Greenlaw, TATE ETC. Issue 7, Summer 2006 ![]()
Past exhibitions at Tate Britain:
A Picture of Britain
15 June – 4 September 2005
Constable to Delacroix British Art and the French Romantics
5 February – 11 May 2003
Bibliographic resources:
For more details on Constable’s painting technique see:
Cove, S ‘Constable’s Oil Painting Materials and Techniques’, in: Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams (eds.), Constable, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery 1991
Cove, S. ‘The Painting Techniques of Constable’s Six-Footers’, in Lyles (ed) Constable: The Great Landscapes, exhibition catalogue, Tate, London 2006.
For details on the technical study of ‘Beaching a Boat, Brighton’ see the entry by Rica Jones in Hackney, Jones, Townsend (eds.) Paint and Purpose: A study of technique in British art, Tate, 1999.
External links:
Field Studies Council - Flatford Mill ![]()
The Cloud Appreciation Society ![]()
Let's Go East of England ![]()
Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six Foot Paintings
National Gallery of Art, Washington October 1 - December 31 2006 ![]()
Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six Foot Paintings
The Huntington, California, February 3, 2007 - April 29, 2007 ![]()


