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  constable.htm
Constable was entranced with the bountiful rural landscape of the Stour valley.
Constable’s artistic ambitions came to fruition in the six monumental landscapes of rural scenes in the Stour Valley, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1819 and 1825.
One of the reasons Constable painted his exhibition landscapes on such a grand scale was to attract the attention of potential patrons at the crowded annual Royal Academy exhibitions, which were a crucial place for establishing an artist’s reputation.
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  Constable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In some states, a constable may be appointed by the judge of the court which he or she serves; in others the constable is an elected or appointed position at the village, precinct or township level of local government.
Constables as such had full police powers and carried out occasional to frequent patrol work in addition to their paper serving duties, and were typically attached to the old municipal or justice courts, and were either elected by popular vote or appointed by the area's presiding judge.
Constables may serve the writs and processes described in section ninety-two and warrants and processes in criminal cases, although their town, parish, religious society or district is a party or interested.
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 John Constable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Constable was born in East Bergholt, a village on the River Stour in Suffolk, to Golding and Ann Constable.
Nevertheless, Constable's influence on subsequent French painting was considerable, particularly on Eugène Delacroix and the impressionists.
Constable is known for his landscape paintings, now exceedingly popular examples of British art, though he only sold 20 paintings in England during his lifetime and was not elected to the Royal Academy until he was 52, just 8 years before his death.
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 Constable, John - MSN Encarta
Constable is now one of the best-loved of all English painters, but he was slow to achieve success in his lifetime and was more appreciated in France than in his own country.
Constable was born in East Bergholt, Suffolk, on June 11, 1776, the son of Golding Constable, a prosperous corn merchant who owned mills nearby at Dedham and Flatford, on the Essex and Suffolk banks of the River Stour.
Constable usually spent the summer and early autumn in East Anglia, making oil sketches and drawings in the open air, and the rest of the year in London, developing his sketches into finished paintings.
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 WebMuseum: Constable, John
To render the shifting flicker of light and weather he abandoned fine traditional finish, catching the sunlight in blobs of pure white or yellow, and the drama of storms with a rapid brush.
Henry Fuseli was among the contemporaries who applauded the freshness of Constable's approach, for C.
Constable worked extensively in the open air, drawing and sketching in oils, but his finished pictures were produced in the studio.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Constable of France   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Constable of France (French connétable de France, from Latin comes stabulari for "count of the stables"), as the First Officer of the Crown, was one of the original five Great Officers of the Crown of France (along with seneschal, chamberlain, butler, and chancellor) and Commander in Chief of the army.
A few constables died in battle or were executed for treason, mostly for political intrigue.
In doing this he appointed as Constable his younger brother Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, and as Vice-Constable, Marshal of the Empire Louis Alexandre Berthier, the French Army Chief of staff and Prince of Neuchatel.
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 The Constable's Office - History of Constables
Further, "The jurisdiction of a constable in ordinary cases, is limited to the Town in which he is (appointed), but for special cases, there are exceptions to this rule." Beard Vs. Seavey, 191 Mass.
For example, " A Constable may arrest on a capias, in a criminal case, outside the town for which he was (appointed) but within the same county, and within the jurisdiction of the court issuing the warrant.
A Constable who is to serve civil process must give a bond to the Town, with sureties approved by the selectmen.
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 Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts features | Andrew Motion looks again at Constable
To turn from their predictabilities to Constable's brooding scene is not just to move from make-believe to real life, but to feel seized by something at once known and mysterious.
Constable never raises his voice to tell us about passing time and the isolation of the individual, but these things are manifest everywhere in his work and are all the more plangent for his modesty.
Taking a low-level stare over the river and fields close to the house of Constable's friend Fisher, it records a view in which the only living creature is a crow, flopped down and straggling in the grass, and painted so small it might almost be a drip of paint.
www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1090506,00.html   (1831 words)

  
 John Constable
Constable continued to study and copy the work of his predecessors for as long as he lived, constantly measuring their interpretations of the natural world against his own experience of it.
Constable returned one day from Beaumont's collection 'with a deep conviction', he told Dunthorne, 'of the truth of Sir Joshua Reynolds's observation that "there is no easy way of becoming a good painter".
Constable was finally elected an A.R.A. later that year, at the age of forty-three.
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 CONSTABLE : impressions of land, sea and sky   (Site not responding. Last check: )
John Constable (1776–1837) was one of the greatest British landscape painters, renowned for his landscapes, his ‘pure and unaffected representation of nature’.
Constable was a great innovator, but he also had a passionate interest in the works of the Old Masters, and in particular the great tradition of landscape painting of Claude and Ruisdael.
Constable had long felt that the sky was ‘the chief organ of sentiment’ in a painting, and Constable: impressions of land, sea and sky will include a group of his well-known sky studies, which capture unique atmospheric effects.
www.nga.gov.au /Exhibition/CONSTABLE/Default.cfm   (458 words)

  
 Ancestry.com - The Parish Constable
Generally, after the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, the parish vestry selected the constable and the justices of the peace confirmed the appointment, although it was legally the responsibility of the manor court until 1842.
The duties of constable meant that he was responsible to the secular authorities and the church authorities.
In Essex, it became usual for the constable to submit his bills to the overseer of the poor and his records reflect the activities of the constable.
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 Constable Tim Holifield
Constables are among the earliest recorded police officers in world history.
The Constitution of the Republic of Texas, signed March 17, 1836, established that a "sufficient number of constables" be elected, and the office of constable was included in the Texas Constitution of 1845, 1869 and 1876.
Constable, Tim Holifield, who was sworn in on January 1, 1997 as the newest elected Constable in Montgomery County, serving the residents of South Montgomery County with his "hometown" approach to law enforcement.
www.angelfire.com /tx/holifield/index.html   (413 words)

  
 John Constable - Olga's Gallery
John Constable was one of the major European landscape artists of the XIX century, whose art was admired by Delacroix and Gericault and influenced the masters of Barbizon and even the Impressionists, although he did not achieved much fame during his lifetime in England, his own country.
John Constable was born in East Bergholt, Suffolk, on 11 June 1776, the fourth child and second son of Ann and Golding Constable.
Constable was educated at Dedham Grammar School, where he distinguished himself more by his draughtsmanship than his scholarship.
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 John Constable, English painter, master painter in the Romantic style   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Constable was born on June 11, 1776, (one year after Turner) in East Bergholt, Suffolk, the son of a prosperous corn merchant with two water mills and 90 acres of land.
Constable wrote as he painted, with an acute and serious eye on the subject, and with a spontaneous presentation of imagery; he also showed over and over again a robust wit and a taste for gossip.
Constable was thirty-nine before he sold a picture, and in his fifties before he was invited to join the Royal Academy.
website.lineone.net /~carpenter9/artist/turner-constable.htm   (1753 words)

  
 Nearly half given constable badge in Boston have been arrested - Boston.com
Among the city's constables, who carry badges and have arrest powers, are many who had their first law enforcement experience when someone with a badge arrested them.
At least 10 Boston constables might consider delivering court papers on foot: Their driver's licenses or registrations have been suspended or will be at renewal time because they have not paid their Boston automobile excise taxes, in some cases for several years.
Constables, Mosher said, ''are appointed by the mayor to represent the mayor, and we would only want their best behavior.''
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 City Constable's Office
Constable Brown is a graduate of T.A. Levy High School in Rosedale, Louisiana and a graduate of Southern University in Baton Rouge.
Constable Brown has received many awards throughout his career; among these are the 1997 Golden Deeds Award and the Southern University Trailblazer award in 1998.
The constable had command of the army, since the main fighting force was comprised of knights on horseback.
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 John Constable biography
Constable was educated at Dedham Grammar School, and after he left school he worked in his father's business.
Constable rejected the formal or "picturesque" rendering of nature found in the works of artists like Gainsborough.
Constable's greatest joy was painting his native Dedham Vale, the valley of the river Stour around Dedham and East Bergholt.
www.britainexpress.com /History/bio/constable.htm   (416 words)

  
 Island of Freedom - John Constable
Constable's interest in the effects of light later became an inspiration to the painters of the impressionist movement.
The specks and strokes of white paint that often lie on the surface of his landscapes are one of the means by which he tried to capture the sparkle and freshness that fascinated him.
Five of Constable’s seven children were painters, and some works formerly attributed to Constable are now known to be the work of his son Lionel.
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 John Constable - Great Artists in History
The couple were loyal to eachother through long periods of separation as Constable spent six months of the year in London painting from his numerous sketches, preparing for the exhibition held by the Royal Academy each May. In the 1815 exhibition he showed eight pictures including 'Boatbuilding'.
He received an annual income from the his father's mill, which was now managed by his brother, and when this was added to his allowance and the earnings for his paintings his marriage to Maria was now possible.
Constable said this picture was 'painted for a very particular person - the person for whom I have all my life painted'.
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 Constable Commercial Real Estate Services - Real Estate, Commercial, Retail, Office, Land, Property
Constable Commercial is committed to the philosophy of its owner, which is to provide honest, dependable, and the best leasing and sales brokerage service, while maintaining the highest possible ethical standards and attention to detail.
Constable Commercial was established by Andy Constable, a twenty-three (23) year veteran of commercial real estate, for the purpose of providing the best possible commercial real estate service to its clients.
Constable Commercial has established a notable network of relationships with developers, landlords, and tenants of all sizes and requirements.
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 William Constable
William Constable was born on 5th April, 1783 in Horley, Surrey, where his father James Constable (1749-1838) owned the local watermill and earned his living milling flour, weaving cloth and selling a variety of goods from his 'general stores' shop.
In 1816, William Constable married Jemima Mott, the 30 year-old niece of Robert Mott of Brighton.
Constable was also the originator of a method of hypsometrical drawing which had applications to the work of surveyors and engineers.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /DSconstable.htm   (2618 words)

  
 Pa.State Constable 13 Page 1
Orginally, the Constable was responsible for keeping the militia and armaments of the king, and those of the individual villages, in a state of preparedness for the protection of the village communities throughout England.
By common law tradition, the constable was the primary official in the community and a community was not recognized as an established village or parish unless a constable was present in the community.
Constables are required to attend and pass an 80 hour training academy to receive certification through the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency under Act 44, and to successfully complete 40 hours of yearly updates on law and firearms training to maintain their certification.
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 Haber's Art Reviews: John Constable and the Origins of Modernism
At the end of Constable's career, his view of nature was to erupt in a comparable passion.
Constable, like many English artists today, was far less rebellious than I imagined, but his transformation of landscape art was even more sweeping.
Unlike the Dutch, Constable was increasingly taking each corner of the world a bit at a time, just as he found it.
www.haberarts.com /constabl.htm   (843 words)

  
 Constable, John : 1776 - 1836 - Romanticism, romanticism, english, painting, Absolutearts.com
In 1824 three of Constable’s paintings were shown at the Paris Salon and were awarded a gold medal by Charles X. Constable’s work was much admired by the French painters, primarily because of his fresh color and bold handling of pigment.
To Constable the sky was “the key note, the standard scale, and the chief organ of sentiment”; he studied it with a meteorologist’s precision.
Constable distinguishes himself from his great contemporary J.M.W. Turner by devoting his painting to the quiet English countryside and by limiting himself to a few subject areas he knew with great intimacy.
www.absolutearts.com /masters/names/Constable_John.html   (754 words)

  
 Travis County Constable
Constable Bob Vann was elected to serve the citizens of Travis County Precinct 2 in November 1996 and took office
The mission of Constable Precinct 2 is to serve the law enforcement needs of the public in a timely, efficient and effective manner.
Under the civil process, the Constable is responsible for Citations, Orders, Writs of Possession, Writs of Reentry, Writs of Sequestration, Writs of Execution, evicts non-paying tenants from properties and levying on property/equipment as ordered by the courts.
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 John Constable
Constable and Turner were the leading figures in English landscape painting of the 19th cent.
Constable became famous for his landscapes of Suffolk, Hampstead, Salisbury, and Brighton.
Constable's direct observations of nature and his free use of broken color were extraordinary in his day.
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 National Gallery of Art - Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings
English artist John Constable (1776–1837) regarded the six foot-long landscapes that he began to paint in 1818–1819 as his most serious and significant achievements.
To create such large-scale works, Constable found he needed an intermediate stage between his small oil studies and the final painting, and he chose to work out the diverse elements of the large compositions on a full-size canvas.
The catalyst for the exhibition was the recent cleaning of the oil sketch for the first six-foot painting The White Horse, which Constable exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1819.
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