…nature than we were able to see before. There's a very amusing anecdote recorded of Constable and one of his chief patrons, Sir George Beaumont, who was an amateur painter himself and an art critic. who came to see Constable in his studio one day and…

…And Gansport said, I don't place it anywhere. I don't have any brown trees. The reason for this extraordinary question was that Beaumont had been brought up at a period when in virtually every landscape there was a brown tree. The whole convention of late…