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Constable's Crucible

Did the British painter invent Impressionism?

By |Posted Monday, Oct. 2, 2006, at 7:41 AM ET

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Christopher Benfey is Mellon professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, A Summer of Hummingbirds, about writers and artists in Gilded Age America, has just been published by the Penguin Press.