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John Constable
Self-portrait by John Constable, detail of a drawing in pencil and watercolour, c. 1804; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
The final painting that John Constable exhibited at the Royal Academy was Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Erected in the Grounds of Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire, by the Late Sir George Beaumont, which he submitted in 1836.1
This work served as a poignant valediction to Sir Joshua Reynolds, whom Constable revered as the father of British art, and to the traditional values that had shaped his own artistic career.1