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Constable In Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter by Martin Gayford
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From BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week:
Passion, money and art - the story of John Constable and his pursuit of the love of his life.
Anton Lesser reads Martin Gayford's account of the early career of John Constable and his long battle to win the hand of his future wife, Maria Bicknell, based on correspondence between the pair.
Constable first met Maria Bicknell, the daughter of a wealthy lawyer, in the Suffolk village of East Bergholt when he was 24 and she was 12. Nine years later they began courting.
Passion, money and art - the story of John Constable and his pursuit of the love of his life.
Anton Lesser reads Martin Gayford's account of the early career of John Constable and his long battle to win the hand of his future wife, Maria Bicknell, based on correspondence between the pair.
Constable first met Maria Bicknell, the daughter of a wealthy lawyer, in the Suffolk village of East Bergholt when he was 24 and she was 12. Nine years later they began courting.
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