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
John Wain work. Wain is still known for his poetry (for example, his " Apology for Understatement") and literary interests (contributions to "The Observer"), although his work is no longer as popular as it was. Critical remarks about Wain by Amis and Larkin in their posthumously published letters may have contributed to diminishing his reputation. Wain's tutor at Oxford had been C. S. Lewis. He encountered, but did not consider himself part of the group of Lewis's literary acquaintances, the Inklings. Wain was as serious about literature as the Inklings, and believed as they did in the primacy of literature as communication,