{"id":762988,"date":"2026-09-07T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762988\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:22:10","slug":"constable-painting-draws-crowds-in-his-home-county-of-suffolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762988\/","title":{"rendered":"Constable painting draws crowds in his home county of Suffolk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A famous John Constable painting has been viewed by more than 11,000 people since it went on display in the county it depicts for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Hay Wain, an 1821 oil painting of a rural scene near the River Stour in Flatford, Suffolk, was unveiled at Ipswich&#8217;s Christchurch Mansion two months ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will remain there until 4 October, having been loaned to Colchester and Ipswich Museums from the National Gallery in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ipswich Borough Council described its appearance in the county as a &#8220;once-in-a-generation&#8221; occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A famous John Constable painting has been viewed by more than 11,000 people since it went on display&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762989,"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-762988","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\/762988","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=762988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}