Constable’s ‘Hay Wain’: A Quiet but Radical British Icon | National Gallery

'The Hay Wain' by John Constable will be familiar to many as capturing quintessential English life in the Suffolk countryside. But does this familiarity stop us from seeing how radical this landscape picture was at the time it was made? Curator Mary McMahon shows us the artist's innovations.

John Constable's 'The Hay Wain' is currently on loan to Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.

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