An exhibition marking 250 years since the birth of landscape artist John Constable features work by multiple generations of his descendants.
Constable’s great-great-great-granddaughter, artist Sasha Constable, lives near Dorchester, Dorset, and has curated the show at the town’s Corn Exchange.
The family’s connection with the county began when Suffolk-born Constable and his wife, Maria Bicknell, spent their honeymoon in Osmington, near Weymouth, in 1816.
The exhibition, entitled Generations, brings together works by Sasha, her father – the late Richard Constable – and her son Valya, as well as pieces by other family members.
Sasha said: “Every generation has had at least one artist. It’s quite a continuity of creative genes.
“It hasn’t always been the case that they have been professional artists but they’ve always had art as part of their life and [they are] good artists as well.
“In this show, I’ve tried to represent each of those artists with one or two pieces of work just to show this connectivity with creativity through the generations.”