Description
John Constable and J.M.W. Turner were successful painters of landscape and rivals in the early 19th century. Contemporaries, they had long careers showing at the Royal Academy and influencing generations of painters to come. Their landscape paintings are Romantic, stressing the emotional punch of the picture over topographical accuracy. Many of them are inhabited, not just for scale but for import: the land and sea are being worked by humankind. The painters' masterworks such as Constable's The Hay Wain and Salisbury Cathedral series will be examined.