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
Louis Wain less money than before, due to imprudent investment in a new type of oil lamp. The onset of Wain's schizophrenia may have been precipitated by "Toxoplasma gondii", a parasite which is excreted by cats in their faeces. The theory that toxoplasmosis can trigger schizophrenia is the subject of ongoing research, though the origins of the theory can be traced back as early as 1953. When his sisters could no longer cope with his erratic and occasionally violent behaviour in 1924, Wain was committed to a pauper ward of Springfield Mental Hospital in Tooting. A year later, he was discovered there,