Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large "six-foot" paintings, and the first in the "Stour series" which later included "The Hay Wain". It is owned and exhibited at the Tate Britain gallery in London. "Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River)" is painted in oil on canvas. It depicts a working rural scene from Suffolk, as two lighter barges and their crew progress up the
The Lock (Constable) church across the quintessentially English water meadows The scene is set under a towering tree and a dramatic, cloud-filled sky. "The Lock" is the fifth of six paintings that make up the "Stour series" of large-scale rural works, that Constable exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1819 and 1825. The painting is the only one of the series which remains in private hands, with the more famous "The Hay Wain" in the National Gallery, London. After its exhibition in 1824, "The Morning Post" commented: "Mr Constable contributes a landscape composition which for depth, sparkling light, freshness and vigorous effect exceeds