The final in a series of talks about painter John Constable looks at the different ways works of art can embody different ideas of time.

Constable’s paintings arise from the rhythms and realities of the agricultural year, but the feeling of time encapsulated in his work goes far deeper. In this lecture we look at two of Constable’s six-footers, A View of the Stour near Dedham, and The Haywain, both of which were show in Paris in 1824, and which caught the eye of Delacroix and a generation of French painters. That they are such familiar works — at least in the case of The Haywain — is all the more reason to look at them anew, and to ask what they can tell us about the different ways in which works of art can embody different ideas of time.