. A wanderer in London. s to be-come very gloomy, very tired. Better to look at the workonly of one or two men and then pass to something else —Bonington for example. There is no sense of decay aboutBoningtons water colours. His Verona is one ofthe great things here. Nor is there any sense of decayabout William James Midler, another great artist whodied young and whose Eastern Burial Ground andVenice no one should miss. The harvesting scenes ofPeter de Wint, a few David Coxes, John Varleys MoelHebog, Callows Leaning Tower of Bologna and aview of the South Downs by Copley Fielding — these alsos
. A wanderer in London. s to be-come very gloomy, very tired. Better to look at the workonly of one or two men and then pass to something else —Bonington for example. There is no sense of decay aboutBoningtons water colours. His Verona is one ofthe great things here. Nor is there any sense of decayabout William James Midler, another great artist whodied young and whose Eastern Burial Ground andVenice no one should miss. The harvesting scenes ofPeter de Wint, a few David Coxes, John Varleys MoelHebog, Callows Leaning Tower of Bologna and aview of the South Downs by Copley Fielding — these alsostand out in ones memory as great feats. Many Turnersarc here too, but for Turners water colours the basementof the National Gallery is the place. The Constable room is another of South Kensingtonsunique treasures. I would not say that his best work ishere: but he never painted anything, however hurriedly,that had not greatness in it, and some of these sketchesare Titanic. It is necessary to visit South Kensington if. m o HO a HO 9) w Q < «W .< ^ ^^ S o o a: s H S Hbi JOHN CONSTABLE 259 one would know this painter thoroughly — his power overweather, his mileage, his trees and valleys, his clouds andlight. There is a little sketch here called Spring whichI associate in my mind with the Printemps of Rousseauat the Thomy-Thierry Collection in the Louvre: they arewholly different, yet each is final. There is a fishing boathere on Brighton Beach which could not be finer. Andthe many sketches of Dedham Vale (Constables Fontaine-bleau) are all wonderful. You may see here his gift offinding beauty where he was. He did not need to travelover land and sea: while other painters were seekingSpain and Italy, Constable was extracting divinity fromHampstead Heath, compelling the Vale of Health to tellhim its secret. The Sheepshanks Collection of works by late Georgianand Victorian painters is interesting for its fine examples ofless known masters as well as its famous works. In ad
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