Memoirs of the Life of John Constable

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Memoirs of the Life of John Constable
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Author Charles Robert Leslie
LanguageEnglish
Genre Biography
Publisher Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts
Publication date
1843
Publication place United Kingdom
Media typePrint

Memoirs of the Life of John Constable is an 1843 biography written by the Anglo-American artist and writer Charles Robert Leslie about his fellow painter John Constable, a celebrated landscape painter of the Regency era. [1] Leslie had been a long-standing friend of Constable who had died in 1837. His work drew heavily on Constable's letters and strongly influenced public perceptions of him for the next century. [2] A second edition was published in 1845. [3]

References

  1. Herrmann p.291
  2. Marter p.143
  3. Gray & Gage p.45

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