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Extract from the East Bergholt Travel Guides:
"I associate my careless boyhood to all that lies on the banks of the Stour" wrote
John Constable
, who was born the son of a miller in
EAST BERGHOLT
, nine miles northeast of Colchester in 1776. The house in which he was born has long since disappeared, so it has been left to
Flatford Mill
, a mile or so to the south, to take up the painter's cause. The mill was owned by his father and was where Constable painted his most famous canvas,
The Hay Wain
(now in the National Gallery, London), which created a sensation when it was exhibited in 1824. To the chagrin of many of hi...
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