Sometimes, even the most influential photographers get lost to time – and William Constable was certainly one of them. Even though the late artist was, for a time, the go-to photographer for British royalty, and pioneered commercial portraiture, his contributions to our beloved craft have never truly received the widespread recognition they deserve.
That was until a few days ago when the descendants of Constable, along with researchers from the University of Brighton, teamed up to unveil a blue plaque at the former site of Constable’s Brighton studio, on the south coast of England, deservedly bringing his name into the modern limelight almost 165 years after he died.
