Background
He was the second son of the painter John Constable and, on his elder brother John Charles"s death in 1841, became head of the Constable family.
He was the second son of the painter John Constable and, on his elder brother John Charles"s death in 1841, became head of the Constable family.
He oversaw the splitting-up of his father"s studio collection in winter 1847/48. He was the only one of John Constable"s children to have issue.