Which English county is known as 'Constable County' after the painter John Constable?

Since many of Constable's paintings depict the area he lived and grew up in, Suffolk is now known as “Constable Country”. John Constable (1776-1837) was born at East Bergholt House in Suffolk on 11th June 1776 to Golding and Ann (Watts) Constable. His older brother was intellectually disabled, so Constable’s parents expected John to work in the family corn business. Instead, Constable’s younger brother Abram took over the running of the mills, allowing Constable to wander the Suffolk and Essex countryside making amateur sketches. Constable later said the scenes “made me a painter, and I am grateful.”

After persuading his father to let him pursue a career as an artist, Constable entered the Royal Academy Schools of Art as a probationer in 1799. After a year of studying the Old Masters and attending drawing classes, Constable officially became a Student at the Schools. After graduating, he turned down the position of drawing master at Sandhurst because he wanted to focus on producing art rather than teaching. Instead, Constable concentrated on his first submission to the Royal Academy’s Annual Exhibition of 1802 (now known as the Summer Exhibition).

In 1819, he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy and exhibited his first “six-footer”. The term refers to six monumental landscapes each painted on a six-foot (1.8 m) canvas, including 'The Hay Wain' (1821), which now resides at the National Gallery and remains one of Constable’s most famous paintings.