He also painted occasional religious pictures, but according to John Walker, " Constable's incapacity as a religious painter cannot be overstated.

One of the most distinctive English countryside trees, the English elm U. procera ( see John Constable's painting Salisbury Cathedral from the South-West ), is particularly susceptible.

A wain was the subject of John Constable's 1821 painting The Hay Wain.

Sold at the exhibition with three other Constable's to dealer John Arrowsmith, it was returned to England by dealer D. T White, who sold it to a Mr. Young who resided in Ryde, Isle of Wight.

John Constable's sketch of Ham House, June 1835

Young's father's business partner Alderman Sir John Henry Corke ( 1850 – 1927 ), who served as Mayor of Portsmouth from 1912 to 1915, helped to smooth the way for Young by securing him an initial placement in the Chief Constable's office ( the post of Cadet Clerk was specially created for him ) in December 1924.

Howard also inspired Shelley's poem " The Cloud " and informed John Constable's paintings and studies of skies and the writings and art of John Ruskin, who used Howard's cloud classification in his criticisms of landscape paintings in Modern Painters.

* Thornes, John. E., John Constable's Skies, The University of Birmingham Press, 1999, ISBN 1-902459-02-4.

His most recent series reveals the artist returning to some of the earliest themes of his career, isolating John Constable's cloud studies, as a motif through which to explore his own thoughts about the English Landscape today.

In second place was John Constable's The Hay Wain, Édouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère was third, and The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck was fourth.

In painting, there was only a portrait of Hieronymus Holtzschuher, a Madonna and Child ( 1526 ), Salvator Mundi ( 1526 ), and two panels showing St. John with St. Peter in background and St. Paul with St. Mark in the background.

* The Bar ( painting ), by John Brack

Media reports immediately following his death indicated Haley displayed deranged and erratic behavior in his final weeks, although beyond a biography of Haley by John Swenson, released a year later, which described Haley painting the windows of his home black, there is little information extant about Haley's final days.

They both viewed the work of British landscape artists John Constable and J. M. W. Turner, which confirmed to their belief that their style of open air painting gave the truest depiction of light and atmosphere, an effect that they felt could not be achieved in the studio alone.

Marija na Škrilinama in the Istrian town of Beram ( 1471 ), painted by Vincent of Kastav ; the painting in the Holy Trinity Church in Hrastovlje in Istria by John of Kastav ( 1490 ); and woodcuts designed in the early 1520s by Hans Holbein the Younger and executed by Hans Lützelburger ( published 1538 ).

* John Ford Paterson ( 1851 – 1912 ), Scottish-Australian landscape painter ; elected president of Victorian Artists Society in 1902 ; highly regarded 1896 painting Evening in the Bush

In John Trumbull's painting Capture of the Hessians at the Battle of Trenton, Monroe can be seen lying wounded at left center of painting.

Severn is best known for his many portraits of Keats, the most famous being the miniature portrait in the National Gallery ( 1819 ), the pen-and-ink sketch, Keats on his Deathbed ( 1821 ), and the oil painting of the poet reading, John Keats at Wentworth Place ( 1821 – 23 ).

John the Baptist ( right ) with child Jesus, painting by Bartolomé Esteban Perez Murillo

In 1823 Audubon took lessons in oil painting technique from John Steen, a teacher of American landscape, and history painter Thomas Cole.

John Chrysostom confronting Aelia Eudoxia, in a 19th Century painting by Jean-Paul Laurens.

His New York students, Reginald Marsh, John Koch, Fairfield Porter and Frank Mason adopted his Old Master painting techniques, and taught it in turn to their own students.

The painting Saint John the Evangelist by Domenico Zampieri was auctioned in London in December 2009, for an estimated US $ 16. 5 million.

Sappho of Lesbos, depicted here in a 1904 painting by John William Godward, gave the term lesbian the connotation of erotic desire between women.

Loki consumes a roasted heart in a painting ( 1911 ) by John Bauer ( illustrator ) | John Bauer

Hypnos and Thanatos, Sleep and His Half-Brother Death, an 1874 painting by John William Waterhouse

* Musée de Tessé, the fine arts museum of the city, displaying painting ( including artworks by Philippe de Champaigne, Charles Le Brun, François Boucher, John Constable, Ingres, Théodore Géricault and Camille Corot ) and archaeological collections as well as decorative arts.

Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People ( 1830, Louvre ), a painting created at a time where old and modern political philosophies came into violent conflict. During the Enlightenment period, new theories about what the human was and is and about the definition of reality and the way it was perceived, along with the discovery of other societies in the Americas, and the changing needs of political societies ( especially in the wake of the English Civil War, the American Revolution and the French Revolution ) led to new questions and insights by such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu and John Locke.

John Watkins Chapman suggested " a Postmodern style of painting " as a way to move beyond French Impressionism.

The Westminster Assembly in a Victorian history painting by John Rogers Herbert.

A 1542 painting of John the Baptist by Titian

This 1862 painting by John Rogers Herbert depicts monks at work in the fields with an abbey ( the Trappist Mount St. Bernard Abbey ) in the background

Elisabeth Pepys in a stipple engraving by James Thomson ( engraver ) | James Thomson, after a 1666 painting ( now destroyed ) by John Hayls.

His mother Bess, who could not write herself, reminded her husband through Sturley to buy the apron he had promised her and `` a suite of hattes for 5 boies the yongst lined & trimmed with silke '' ( for John, only a year old ).

So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.

John sold the big old place in Sewickley and bought a smaller house in Fox Chapel.

Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20 – 45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18 – 40.

* The Star-Spangled Banner's tune was adapted from an old English drinking song by John Stafford Smith called " To Anacreon in Heaven ".

His brothers were equally willing to save the dowager queen, but Otto got an army into the field: they subsequently met at the old Lombard capital of Pavia and were married in 951 ; he was crowned emperor in Rome, 2 February 962 by Pope John XII, and, most unusually, she was crowned empress at the same ceremony.

In a letter to P. Schuyler Miller and John D. Clark in 1936 only three months before Howard's death, Conan is described as standing and weighing when he takes part in an attack on Venarium at only 15 years old, though being far from fully grown.

It was because of this that when he was two months old, David Lynch moved with his parents to Sandpoint, Idaho, and only two years after that, following the birth of his brother John, the family again moved, this time to Spokane, Washington.

Theodore Roosevelt, the youngest to serve, was 42 years and 11 months old when he was sworn in following the death of William McKinley in 1901, and John F. Kennedy, the youngest to be elected, was 43 years and 7 months old when he was inaugurated in 1961.

That would make the 14th Vice President John C. Breckinridge the youngest because he was 36 years old at the time of being sworn in.

His parents divorced when he was four years old ; shortly after, his mother married John Mark Byers who adopted the boy.

Instead of reviving the old character, Schwartz had writers Robert Kanigher and John Broome, penciler Carmine Infantino, and inker Joe Kubert create an entirely new super-speedster, updating and modernizing the Flash's civilian identity, costume, and origin with a science-fiction bent.

Campbell began his speed record attempts using his father's old boat Bluebird K4, but after a structural failure at on Coniston Water, Lancashire in 1951, and the death of John Cobb, who was killed in 1952 trying to break the water speed record, he decided that he would develop a new boat.

According to the Church Fathers, the Bishops of Asia Minor requested John, in his old age, to write a gospel in response to Cerinthus, the Ebionites and other Hebrew groups which they deemed heretical.

Liberal scholar Robert W. Funk and the Jesus Seminar place the Egerton fragment in the 2nd century, perhaps as early as 125, which would make it as old as the oldest fragments of John.

It has become generally accepted that certain sayings in John are as old or older than their synoptic counterparts, that John's knowledge of things around Jerusalem is often superior to the synoptics, and that his presentation of Jesus ' agony in the garden and the prior meeting held by the Jewish authorities are possibly more historically accurate than their synoptic parallels.

Based on the testimony of John Malalas and the Epitome de Caesaribus that Gallienus was about 50 years old at the time of his death, it is generally considered he was born around 218, son of Valerian and Mariniana, a woman possibly of senatorial rank and possibly a daughter of Egnatius Victor Marinianus, and brother of Valerianus Minor.

Major was born at the St. Helier Hospital in Sutton, Surrey, the son of Gwen Major and former Music Hall performer Tom Major-Ball ( né Abraham Thomas Ball ), who was 64 years old when John was born.

* 1981 – 6 year old Adam Walsh, son of John Walsh is kidnapped in Hollywood, Florida and is found murdered two weeks later.

John Calvin at 53 years old in an engraving by René Boyvin

If Daniel's Vita is trustworthy ( and there is nothing against which to judge its accuracy ), then John came to the Vatos Monastery at Mount Sinai, now Saint Catherine's Monastery, and became a novice when he was about 16 years old.

For his part in the potential marriage alliance, Henry II transferred the castles of Chinon, Loudun and Mirebeau into John's name ; as John was only five years old his father would continue to control them for practical purposes.

John married Isabella whilst she was relatively young – her exact date of birth is uncertain, and estimates place her between at most 15 and more probably towards nine years old at the time of her marriage.

Harris believes that the tradition that John lived to old age in Ephesus developed in the late 2nd century, although the tradition does appear in the last chapter of the gospel, though this debatable tradition assumes that John the Evangelist, John the Apostle, the Beloved Disciple mentioned in John 21 and sometimes also John the Presbyter are the same person.