text: " What influence scenery of a higher class might have had on Constable's mind it is not easy to decide; as it was the narrow circuit of a few miles round Bergholt within which the materials of his pictures are chiefly found became for him the epitome of English nature; and he associated the very ideal of beauty with those quiet nooks and scenes of tranquillity and amenity where he had first exercised his pencil and amidst which in after life he loved to linger