Review Brilliant, wholly fascinating. I can't recommend this delightful book too highly (Craig Brown Mail on Sunday)Delightful...a small drama of love, frustration and despair played itself out with massive repercussions for the history of painting (Financial Times)A stunning account of Constable's coming of age as both a man and an artist (Guardian)Gayford's nuanced narrative throws much-needed fresh light, as well as real understanding, on both Constable's painting and his love life (Sunday Telegraph)A scrupulously observed tragical-comical tale (Evening Standard)Engaging, cunning, agreeable and alert to the vagaries of human behaviour (Literary Review) About the Author Martin Gayford has been art critic of the Spectator and the Sunday Telegraph. He is currently Chief European art critic for Bloomberg. Among his publications are: The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles, The Penguin Book of Art Writing, of which he was co-editor, and contributions to many catalogues. In 2009 he co-curated the exhibition Constable Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery and Compton Verney. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children.
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