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 Hay Wain On the death of his friend Mr. Young, Vaughan bought the painting from the former's estate; in 1886 he presented it to the National Gallery in London, where it still hangs today. In his will Vaughan bequeathed the full-scale oil sketch for "The Hay Wain", made with a palette knife, to the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum). "The Hay Wain" was voted the second most popular painting in any British gallery, second only to Turner's "Fighting Temeraire", in a 2005 poll organised by BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme. On 28 June 2013 a protester, reported to