Shelly was working at the National Portrait Gallery today, so me and M went to check out the Constable portraits exhibition, which I liked a lot. Most of the pictures in the exhibition are of people Constable knew well, so it's a bit like a Georgian photo album. The soldier in this drawing, from 1806, is thought to be Constable's cousin, James Gubbins, who was killed nine years later at Waterloo.
3 comments:
very cool pic -
I wonder if he was responsible for the term "Gubbins"
"I should paint my own places best-painting is but another word for feeling." Good post!
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