John Constable
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [1]
An eminent landscape-painter, born in Suffolk; his works were more generously appreciated in France than in his own country, as they well might be, where they had not, as in England, to stand comparison with those of Turner; but he is now, despite the depreciation of Ruskin, becoming recognised among us as one of our foremost landscapists, and enormous prices have been given of late for his best pictures; some of his best works adorn the walls of the National Gallery; Ruskin allows his art is original, honest, free from affectation, and manly (1776-1837).
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
a Scotch clergyman, took his degree at the University of St. Andrews in 1674; was presented to the living at Kingoldrum in 1684, and ordained. He died in February, 1703, aged about forty-nine years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticance, 3:753.
