Memoirs of the Life of John Constable is an 1843 biography written by the Anglo-American artist and writer Charles Robert Leslie about his fellow painter John Constable, a celebrated landscape painter of the Regency era.Herrmann p.291 Leslie had been a long-standing friend of Constable who had died in 1837. His work drew heavily on Constable's letters and strongly influenced public perceptions of him for the next century.Marter p.143 A second edition was published in 1845.Gray & Gage p.45
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