British Oil Paintings by John Constable

John Constable was remembered as an artist who really mastered the techniques needed to produce inspiring landscape paintings and his work was created in the English county of Suffolk, which continues to have it's reputation promoted from the past paintings and sketches from this internationally-renowned artist.
In the centuries leading up to the period in which John Constable came about there had not been as much interest in landscape painting from the academics or public as there is now and we owe a lot to his career for helping to bring this genre more into the mainstream for the first time.
Hay Wain features a classic English scene of that era when Constable was so productive and is now an instantly recognisable piece for most art fans around the world, with few other British paintings even nearly as famous as this one. The only ones that can compete would include JMW Turner's Fighting Temeraire plus others from the careers of other British masters such as William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds and similar. Recent painters such as David Hockney and Jack Vettriano can also boast to having well known careers.
Constable had a fairly classic style with in his paintings which is not particularly innovative but still his work proved impressive through the detail and well chosen locations which were dotted around Suffolk, in the main. John Constable was at heart an exceptionally skilled sketcher who produced some incredibly detailed pencil drawings that simply did not need any additional media such as oil paints or acrylics as other artists use today. Constable only extended into oil painting as a way of adding colours to his work and this helped to really lift his creations as of course colour is so key to landscape paintings, which explains why landscape art has grown in popularity alongside the development of colour as used by artists across the world.
In summary, it is well worth taking the time to check out the best work from John Constable and in truth there is a whole host of paintings and sketches to look at which may be to your taste, particularly if you are already sold on landscape painting as a genre. The general style of Constable paintings did remain the same throughout, but you may find that some locations are more to your taste than others, with Hay Wain always likely to remain his best known painting as it has been for many centuries.