Constable in Brighton: exhibition for the master

Paintings of glittering seas, towering waves and beached boats hint at artist’s empathy with his Sussex home of 1824-1828When the artist Peter Harrap moved to Brighton, to a narrow street sloping down towards the sea, he set up his studio in an upper room with a north facing window – and then discovered to his surprise that he was not the first artist to appreciate its airy light. Almost two centuries earlier John Constable had set up his easel there in the seaside lodgings he had ta