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Constable: A Country Rebel

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John Constable is the Nation's favourite landscape painter. From The Haywain to The White Horse his pictures of rural life seem comforting, traditional and perhaps just a bit... boring. Or, as art critic and presenter, Alastair Sooke says:...

John Constable is the Nation's favourite landscape painter. From The Haywain to The White Horse his pictures of rural life seem comforting, traditional and perhaps just a bit... boring. Or, as art critic and presenter, Alastair Sooke says: 'he screams "no sex please we're British!"' So why is the artist who launched a thousand dish cloths the original country rebel?


Info about Constable: A Country Rebel

Studio(s): BBC Four

Originally Released: Sep 07, 2014

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Documentary