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...seen fresh, without evident convention: the patches of scudding sunlight on wheat fields, the broken arc of a rainbow, the painterly delight in filling three-quarters of a canvas with high piling clouds. Time and again, one sees images in Constable that might have been lifted straight from Ruisdael. Hadleigh Castle, 1829, with its tall split tower and ruins behind, virtually repeats the motif of Ruisdael's melancholy Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond, painted 170 years before...
...from the juvenilia (a graffito he scratched on a beam in the family mill when he was 16) and memorabilia, to the grand series of 6-ft. landscapes he painted in the 1820s and '30s. These include The Hay Wain, The Leaping Horse, Salisbury Cathedral, from the Meadows, Hadleigh Castle. In them Constable did to the perception of landscape in paint what Wordsworth had done to it in verse...
This is the landscape of touch. In Hadleigh Castle, c. 1829-a gloomy ruin at the mouth of the Thames, painted around the time of his wife's death from consumption-Constable's tactility reaches its extreme. A cowherd and his collie are encrusted blobs, identical in substance to the rocks, the ruin, the clouds; liquid or scumbled, the tossing white brush marks in the sky have a resolutely material quality for which there were no parallels in European painting...
...death utterly shattered Constable. "The face of the world is totally changed for me," he told a friend. He wore mourning for the nine remaining years of his life. To assuage his sorrow, he turned to a sketch that he had made of the ruins of Hadleigh castle, which stood near the mouth of the Thames. In the completed painting, while the ruined castle becomes a monument to Constable's grief, the scudding clouds, the glistening rocks and the sparkling leaves display a fervent commitment to self-renewing life...
...last week Woolner's poetry and sculpture (including his first triumph, Eleanor Sucking the Poison from the Arm of Prince Edward*} were mostly forgotten, but officials of the parish church at Hadleigh, Suffolk, still remembered his reply to Darwin and its implication of rather thoroughgoing research. They turned down a memorial offered by Woolner's aging daughters, because "any man who is asked to do things like that is not suitable to be commemorated in a church tablet." To clear his parish of any possible suspicion of complicity, Churchwarden W. Jones told the consistory court at Bury...