Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter
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Subtitled, }Love, Landscape, Money & The Making Of A Great Painter{. Chronicles seven crucial years in painter John Constable's life, when he flowered as an artist whilst at the same time wooing the woman he would marry. 'Brilliant, wholly fascinating' Craig Brown, }Mail On Sunday John Constable and Maria Bicknell might have been in love but their marriage was a most unlikely prospect. For seven long years the couple were forced to correspond and meet clandestinely. But it was during this period of longing that Constable developed as a painter.