Cello belonging to artist John Constable to be played for first time in 100 years
Exclusive: Landscape painter was also a keen musician and played a cello made for him by his friend and mentor
March 2026
Turner & Constable review – excellent survey of two great rivals in English painting
Documentary accompanying Tate Britain’s exhibition of the two competing painters comes with approachable expertise and beautiful photography
December 2025
Turner’s mother’s frustration and a memorable brush with Bacon
Letters: Dr Selby Whittingham considers the ill-treatment of Turner’s mother, while Paul Collins recalls taking one artist to see another’s work. Plus letters from Martin Argles and John Caperon
November 2025
The Guardian view on Turner and Constable: radical in different ways
Editorial: Capturing the changing landscapes of the 18th century, the rivals transformed British art. The climate emergency gives new urgency to their work
Turner v Constable: Tate Britain exhibition invokes long history of artistic rivalries
From Michelangelo and Leonardo to Picasso and Matisse, bitter feuds have defined art. But are contemporary artists more collaborative than their renaissance predecessors?
Turner & Constable review – boiling portentous skies versus two men and a dog
JMW Turner is beaten by John Constable in this mighty show. But who cares when the work is so sublime you can hear the squelching and smell the river?
August 2025
Reframing the debate over Tate attendances and exhibitions
Letters: Tate director, Maria Balshaw,responds to reports of a decline in visitor numbers. Catherine Bliss is unimpressed by recent offerings at the galleries
March 2025
National Trust creates living gene bank of endangered native black poplar
Cuttings of tree captured by John Constable being planted on restored Devon floodplain
October 2024
‘Immensely private’: inside great sketchbooks from history
The V&A has delved into its archives to showcase the embryonic work of leading artists including Leonardo and Constable along with lesser-known talents
September 2023
‘Lost’ Constable painting found on wall of terrace house sells for £200,000
Sketch showing different view of cottage that features in The Hay Wain bought in Guernsey for almost double guide price
Constable sketch that was found in suitcase to be sold at auction
The 200-year-old pencil sketch of a view across Dover harbour was discovered during a house clearance
Constable painting of alternative Hay Wain scene rediscovered
Oil on canvas sketch shows the rear of Willy Lott’s house, which appears in artist’s 1821 masterpiece
March 2023
It’s a Constable – but not the one you know – in a new show of forged art
A seascape purportedly by John Constable, but actually by one of his sons, features in an exhibition of forgeries at the Courtauld Gallery in London
December 2022
Watermill and shipwrecks among heritage sites listed in England
The Historic England list also includes two cab shelters in London and first world war training trenches
November 2022
John Constable’s favourite Hampstead pond to be restored after two centuries
Branch Hill pond dried up in the 1880s. Now it will teem with wildlife again, as it did in the artist’s heyday
July 2022
Climate protesters glue themselves to National Gallery artwork
Campaigners from Just Stop Oil pressure group reimagine The Hay Wain by John Constable
Fake views of Shot Tower in Constable’s painting of Waterloo Bridge
Letters: Nick Rampley on the anachronistic appearance of a former South Bank landmark in the artist’s 1817 Thames skyline
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Gallery-goers take a twisted trip and history’s visionaries set sail – the week in art
Ceramics smash against abstract art, a trans painter tells her story and crop circles get a late reappraisal – all in your weekly dispatch
Radical Landscapes review – ‘Is loving green fields really wicked?’
It has some fabulous works, from a canal by Constable to a gnarled old tree by Tacita Dean, but this show’s radical v conservative thesis gets caught in the brambles – and the climate section is catastrophic
April 2022
Constable painting of Waterloo Bridge ‘transformed’ by conservation work
National Trust puts artist’s largest work on display at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire after removal of yellowed varnish
