John Constable was born in 1776. The beauty of the surrounding scenery of his home, its luxuriant meadows, its woods and rivers became the subject matter of his paintings. He used sparkles of light and colour to give the picture a deliberate roughness of texture. His paintings were not popular because people thought they were too bright and copied nature too exactly. His famous works are Flatford Mill and The Hay Wain. He was the one who discovered the effects of coloured patches placed densely side by side on the canvas.         

Joseph Mallord William Turner was one of the founders on English watercolour landscape painting. He was born a year earlier than Constable, in 1775. One of his main themes was the helplessness and smallness of man against the destructive forces of nature. The pastel light in his pictures makes a striking effect as he uses an interplay between dark and light, warm and cold passes in his pictures. Perhaps one of the finest examples of Turner’s oil paintings is Norham Castle, Sunrise. Turner painted there not an object, nor a landscape, but the very air itself. The majority of Turner’s works are exhibited at the London Tate Gallery.