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 borderland of Suffolk and north Essex surrounding his home – now known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling." June 11, 1776 – March 31, 1837; died at 60. Alive at the same time as Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Ludwig van Beethoven. Wiki link