The picture reprsesnts on of the beautiful and purely rustic scenes Constable loved to paint, and of which he found so many in his native country, Suffolk, and in certain parts of one which borders it, Essex. It is from the later he sketched this subject, we believe; for the distant church looks that of Dedham, a small village in Essex, the neighborhood of which was a favorite haunt of the artist in the sketching season. The ‘Corn Field,’ is somewhat of a misnomer, for little of it is brought into the composition- a pleasant shady lane shut in by lofty hedges and thickly leaved trees, the roots of which are, on side, watered by a rippling stream. The forms of the trees are true to nature; the hedgerows are wildly luxuriant, while over all roll grandly masses of clouds, betokening showery weather. It is in every way a noble English landscape.In all that Constable did we find some episode, as it were, of rustic life; it is here exemplified in the shepherd boy who has left his flock to pursue its way while he stoops down to “take a drink” of the clear running water by the pathway’s side. Artist Biography: