Weidenfeld & Nicolson £25
In 1823, John Constable presented to his friend John Fisher, the Bishop of Salisbury, his lovely oil painting Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Grounds. Fisher objected only to the looming grey clouds.
But what is a Constable without clouds? He is the pre-eminent artist of the English sky in all its tumultuous variations, an obsessively close observer of ever-changing weather.
Constable’s , so familiar from a million reproductions that it is difficult to. That is far more evocative of its feeling of midday stillness, before the sudden breaking of the rain-cloud.
