{"id":480821,"date":"2026-03-17T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480821\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:51:08","slug":"constable-legacy-to-be-honoured-in-three-exhibitions-in-ipswich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480821\/","title":{"rendered":"Constable legacy to be honoured in three exhibitions in Ipswich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first of three exhibitions celebrating the life and work of the landscape painter John Constable will open in the county that shaped his legacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Constable 250 will showcase work by the Suffolk-born artist and feature rare family portraits as well as some of his early paintings.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three commemorative events will take place at Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich, starting on 28 March, to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth in East Bergholt in 1776. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carole Jones, Ipswich Borough Council&#8217;s portfolio holder for planning and museums, said the anniversary year &#8220;not only celebrates Constable&#8217;s genius, but also the friends, family, landscapes and communities that shaped his story&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first of three exhibitions celebrating the life and work of the landscape painter John Constable will open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-480821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}