![]() This sketch is unusual in that Constable looks so directly out to sea here. The surface of the sea has been given emphasis by a number of horizontal incisions perhaps with the end of the brush. The sky has been created with a series of hasty sweeps of the brush. In many of his Brighton sketches Constable included figures and boats as points of reference but here he has almost completely dispensed with human interest to capture the powerful but fleeting image of a storm with a shaft of sunlight suddenly breaking through the glowering black clouds. The thunderous black clouds and torrential downpour have been painted rapidly to capture the fleeting nature of the scene.Ĭonstable's atmospheric sketch of a rainstorm over Brighton beach was painted between 18 while the artist's wife and family were living on the Sussex coast.
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