John Constable

  • Constable’s drawing of Seaford – Part 2.

    by Rodney Castleden I expect some of you will, like me, be fans of Fiona Bruce and her ‘Fake or Fortune’ programmes. If so, you will perhaps be concerned that in the earlier piece I made the connection between the 1824 pencil drawing of Seaford and John Constable’s visit to Brighton that same year too…

  • Seaford, drawn in 1824

    Article by Rodney Castleden Two hundred years ago, an artist walked up Belgrave Road, which was then a road crossing open farmland, and opposite the end of Carlton Road he turned down the twitten to the right. This was an open field path, a right of way between the fields, Guard Ale to the east…