A Walk In The English Countryside

[sun_flower]

Flatford Mill Constable Country,Hope all fellow CLLers are having a good day [Sun-Flower]

[Newdawn Administrator]

Quintessentially British!

Hope you're having a good day too Sunflower.

Newdawn

[Kwenda]

Nice picture..

Needs a horse drawn hay wain, and the mill should never have been painted white.!!

Dick

[sun_flower in reply to Kwenda]

interesting reply Kwenda ?

[Kwenda in reply to sun_flower]

Technically Flatford Mill is behind you as you took this photograph today..

However the famous painting by Constable named ‘ Flatford Mill ‘ was painted in exactly the view as in your photograph. The mill was owned by Constable’s father, who was a successful businessman, and his father’s allowance then enabled Constable to pursue his vocation for painting.

‘ The Hay Wain is a painting by John Constable, finished in 1821, which depicts a rural scene on the River Stour between the English counties of Suffolk and Essex. It hangs in the National Gallery in London and is regarded as "Constable's most famous image" and one of the greatest and most popular English paintings.’

The building in the photograph was, according to Constable’s painting, a kind of ‘dirty white’ but this rather stark application of white paint does jar with the original Constable painting.

I am not sure but is Flatford Mill now part of The National Trust.??

For those not familiar with all this see these web page links:-

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatf...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_H...

Dick

[sun_flower in reply to Kwenda]

Thanks, yes it is national Trust of which l am a member so often walk there l am lucky

[Cllcanada Top Poster CURE Hero]

That's Willy Lott's Cottage... it was always white...

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil...

[Kwenda in reply to Cllcanada]

Always white but a dirty white as it was a lime wash, from chalk.

The modern white paint being based from titanium dioxide is just too white and not true to the history of the building.

For some Kentish villages on these historical buildings they have recognised this and now do not use titanium dioxide white but tone it down with just a lttle grey and other colours.

Dick

[PaulaS Volunteer]

Fantastic photo Sunflower. I love the clouds and reflections and the ducks! All so very atmospheric! Thanks for posting.

Paula

[CLLCalifornia-USA]

My bags are packed! Absolutely stunning. Thanks for sharing, Sally

[meemsdream]

Wow Sun flower, what a beautiful picture. Sure wish I was sitting there right now. It is snowing pretty hard right now and very cold! Thank you for sharing. Maria