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Martin Gayford has been art critic of the Spectator and the Sunday Telegraph. He is currently Chief European art critic for Bloomberg. Among his publications are: The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles, The Penguin Book of Art Writing, of which he was co-editor, and contributions to many catalogues. In 2009 he co-curated the exhibition Constable Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery and Compton Verney. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children.
Brilliant, wholly fascinating. I can't recommend this delightful book too highly -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday * Delightful...a small drama of love, frustration and despair played itself out with massive repercussions for the history of painting * Financial Times * A stunning account of Constable's coming of age as both a man and an artist * Guardian * Gayford's nuanced narrative throws much-needed fresh light, as well as real understanding, on both Constable's painting and his love life * Sunday Telegraph * A scrupulously observed tragical-comical tale * Evening Standard * Engaging, cunning, agreeable and alert to the vagaries of human behaviour * Literary Review *
