Excerpt from Constable and His Influence on Landscape Painting While, then, no pains have been spared to give an accurate and impartial account of Constable's life and character, the main portion of this book has been devoted, first to tracing briefly the rise of naturalism in landscape up to the time of Constable's youth; then to studying very carefully the influences under which the painter developed his own personal genius, and to examining thoroughly the true character of his achievement; and lastly to considering the variations and extensions of Constable's practice, which have had so much influence, whether for good or for evil, upon the landscape painters of to-day, both in Britain and on the Continent. Such a study cannot be complete without being to some extent technical; and, to make the technical points clear, the work has been illustrated with a long series of photographs taken specially to show the peculiar characteristics of Constable's technique, and the order in which the various elements of his genius were evolved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.