Spending most of his time in East Bergholt, the first ten plates in this anthology were probably all made in the vicinity of his birthplace. Constable frequently painted from the windows of the house in which he stayed (Baskett, 20). In the beginning many considered nothing of Johns work and only committed that he focus on the ordinarily parts of life. In 1805 John was invited to paint an altarpiece for Brantham, and in 1807 required to copy family portraits. During his lifetime, extraordinarily only few works were acquired from John other than those bought by patrons who were already friends (Peacock, 12). Although some light was shined on Johns career, neither his mother nor his father would live to see him achieve the enjoyment of public success.In 1809, John would seek the hand of a girl, Maria Bicknell, some eighteen years younger than he. Though the love between the two was strong the Bricknells strongly objected to any relationship between the two. This would cause painful dispare, that can be seen even in Johns paintings (Taylor, 14). The worst was yet to come, for in June John would lose the one person who had always supported and encourage his endeavors into the fields of art, Ann Constable, his mother, would pass away. Her faith in him had never lost the wholesome bite of common sense (Shirley, 93). Much of the rest was spent back home in Suffolk that year tending to his fathers declining health. With in days of Mrs. Constables death Mrs. Bricknell died as well. The illness and death of Mrs. Bricknell seemed to have made Marias father less cautious and he allowed meeting between John and Maria, to occur again. And then the following May, Golding Constable too, passed away.With the death of Golding , came a assured increased in the income and in combination with the a progress in Johns work, Maria decision to liberate from her families objections, led to the marriage or rather the eloping of John and Maria Constab...
