in European art (Peacock, 28). The critic Nodier, who on his return from Paris published an enthusiastic appreciation of the painter, saw the picture in England. G`ericaut, a guest of the Academy, he too, noticed Constables brilliant effects among his friends in Pairs, including Delacroix (Taylor, 21) Because of this recongition in Paris, Constable has sometimes been considered as the man who inspired the Barbizon painters and the French Impressionists (Baskett, 11). John would go on to exhibit many more times, but in 1824 Maria would become ill. Constable moved the family to Brighton in hopes that the sea would act as a tonic for Maria. She suffered from sleeplessness and the profuse night sweats all characteristics of pulmonary tuberculosis (Baskett, 11). Maria though, would never return to good health. In 1827 she bore their seventh child, and on November 28, 1828, she died. Marias death was a paralyzing blow. A profound change overcame Constable after his wifes death. The joy went out of his life and with it faded the spontaneous urge to make sketches from nature. John would never be the same. Loneliness and desperation clouded the last years of Constables life. Many of his friends were dead, and attacks of illness only made his depression aggravated. And on March 31, 1837 suddenly from violent indigestion, John Constable died at age sixty (Baskett, 13).In the end Constable found a link of association between natural landscape, and the artists personal feelings. He sought to express his love of the open countryside. Through an apparently spontaneous use of color and rapid brushstrokes he was able to capture the fleeting mood of a scene (Phaidon, 105). Behind these speckled bits of paint, however, lies a carefully composed structure. John did not even seems to tell a story line with his pieces, yet only tried to stir up the familiar. Constable is sometimes referred to as a pantheist. Tru...
