This site includes overviews of John Constable's early artistic influences, his biographical information, a general historical timeline, and a short jaunt into the world of his paintings. This is the culmination of many hours of work for our Rise of the Eighteenth-Century Novel course at the University of Michigan, so we hope you enjoy it. We invite you to sit back, relax, and, in effect, jump into the early years of John Constable's life and his art.