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View in the Lake District
View in the Lake District is a watercolor work on paper by the Romanticist artist John Constable. It dates from 1806 and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. The work is a pencil and watercolour view featuring numerous trees, created during Constable's autumn visit to the Lake District in 1806.
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The work is a pencil and watercolour view featuring numerous trees, created during Constable's autumn visit to the Lake District in 1806. It was part of a series of drawings made during his two-month stay in the region. The piece was not exhibited at the Royal Academy that year, unlike some of his other works from the same period.
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John Constable was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area on the…
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