Constable - A Portrait

Zusatztext The lively art historian James Hamilton reveals the "complex, troubled man" in this biography of the landscape painter John Constable Informationen zum Autor James Hamilton is an art and cultural historian. His books include TURNER: A LIFE, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and A STRANGE BUSINESS: MAKING ART AND MONEY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN, which in 2014 was named Art Book of the Year by the SUNDAY TIMES. Hamilton was curator of art collections and projects in Portsmouth, Wakefield, Sheffield, Leeds and the University of Birmingham, where he is a Fellow of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts. Klappentext A fresh biography of the revolutionary British landscape painter John Constable, from the author of Gainsborough, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and The Times, Sunday Times and Observer book of the year Vorwort A fresh biography of the revolutionary British landscape painter John Constable, from the author of Gainsborough , a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and The Times, Sunday Times and Observer book of the year Zusammenfassung A fresh biography of the revolutionary British landscape painter John Constable, from the author of Gainsborough, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and The Times, Sunday Times and Observer book of the year

Product details

• Authors: James Hamilton
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.02.2022
• EAN: 9781474612913
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-1291-3
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 238 mm x 46 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; ART / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes, History of Art, Romanticism, Painting & paintings, Art & design styles: Romanticism, Biography: arts and entertainment, Nature in art, Paintings and painting