United KingdomSociety 49 · A modern society
Who painted The Hay Wain, a famous picture of the countryside on the border of Suffolk and Essex?
- aJ. M. W. Turner
- bDavid Hockney
- cJohn ConstableCorrect answer
- dLucian Freud
Why?
John Constable (1776–1837) was a landscape painter best known for scenes of Dedham Vale on the Suffolk–Essex border. The Hay Wain hangs in the National Gallery in London.
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