The artist captured an everyday English scene with revelatory naturalism in this 1821 painting, which is among the stars of ...

Who was better, JMW Turner or John Constable? A daft question, surely, or so I thought. In my recent book on British art, I avoided choosing. Two greats, too different. But when The Times asked me ...

Two eco-activists arrested after they glued themselves to the frame of John Constable’s masterpiece The Hay Wain at the National Gallery have been freed on bail pending further police enquiries.