“It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition.”

—  John Constable

Letter to a client, Mr Carpenter (23 July 1828), as quoted in Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams, Constable (Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1993), p. 291
1820s

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