Painting offered Big Issue co-founder John Bird hope at a low ebb and its ability to renew hope hasn't failed him yet.

It is in the tiny hamlet of Flatford, on the north bank of the River Stour in Suffolk, which is at the centre of the area now known as "Constable Country". John Constable (1776-1837) Born in ...

This was a very personal picture of John Constable's back garden ... landscape that has now become known as 'Constable Country'. He never sold these paintings during his lifetime.