As oil sketches became more popular at the end of the eighteenth century, artists became less reserved about leaving brushstrokes and other marks in their paintings, although the great majority of those sketches were never intended to be seen by the public. John Constable (1776–1837), Fen Lane, East Bergholt (c 1811), oil on paper laid on canvas, 22.1 x 19.5 cm, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. Wikimedia Commons. John Constable’s oil …
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