John Constable’s ‘Haywain’ depicts a scene on which river?
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
Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) and substituted the figures of the two boys. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1817 under the title "Scene on a Navigable River", Constable repainted the tops of the trees and the entire sky afterwards. This was in time for the picture's second showing at the British Institution in January 1818, where it was given the title "Flatford Mill". Although he had scraped an income from painting, it was not until 1819 that Constable sold his first important canvas, "The White Horse", which led to a series of "six footers", as he called his large-scale paintings. Constable never sold the