{"id":625363,"date":"2026-10-09T12:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625363\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T12:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:36:11","slug":"john-constables-the-hay-wain-draws-in-21000-visitors-to-ipswich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625363\/","title":{"rendered":"John Constable&#8217;s The Hay Wain draws in 21,000 visitors to Ipswich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The curator behind John Constable&#8217;s Hay Wain painting exhibition said it was &#8220;phenomenal&#8221; that 21,000 people had been to see it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the summer, thousands came to Christchurch Mansion to see the 1821 oil painting that had been on loan to Colchester and Ipswich Museums from the National Gallery, London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The famous piece depicts a rural scene near the River Stour in Flatford, and on its final exhibition day on Sunday 1,000 people came to take a look.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Curator Emma Roodhouse said people had been left feeling &#8220;emotional and overwhelmed&#8221; by the work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were inundated with visitors and amazing reactions from people who had never seen the painting before, from ages right the way to tiny babies to ninety-three-year-olds,&#8221; she told BBC Radio Suffolk&#8217;s Matt Marvel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The curator behind John Constable&#8217;s Hay Wain painting exhibition said it was &#8220;phenomenal&#8221; that 21,000 people had been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-625363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}