ward the more subjective side of human experience, and feeling was then the subject and object of art.
To a degree, Romanticism in art was a reaction against the rational qualities of the Neoclassical, and the evocation of emotion became the chief goal of the Romantic artist. Foremost among the French painters of this movement was EugFne Delacroix. Romanticism would hold sway until the middle of the nineteenth century, when there would be other currents pushing the artistic world in new directions.
John Constable was ranked with Turner as one of the greatest of British landscape artists. He was born in 1776 and showed an early talent for art and began painting his native Suffolk scenery before he left school. He committed himself to a career in art only in 1799 when he joined the Royal Academy Schools, and he was not made a full Academician until 1829, when he was elected by a majority of only one vote. Constable spent some years working in the picturesque tradition of landscape and the manner of Gainsborough, but he then developed his own origin
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