English landscape painter John Constable was born, June 11, 1776, in East Bergholt, a village on the River Stour in Suffolk. ❦ A painter known principally for his landscape paintings of the Suffolk countryside, the area surrounding his home – now known as “Constable Country” – which he invested with an intensity of affection. As he said: “I should paint … Continue reading John Constable [1776 – 1837]