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Willy Lott’s House was one of John Constable’s favourite subjects. Lott was there when Constable was born and there when Constable died. It features in so many of his sketches and paintings including three of his most famous, The Hay Wain, The Mill Stream, and The White Horse.

It was The Hay Wain in particular, reproduced worldwide, not only as a picture but also on calendars, table mats and other tourist memorabilia, which has conferred a lasting fame on both the house and its occupant.

This story of Willy Lott and his ‘Cottage’, told for the first time by a direct descendant of the Lott family of Flatford, is full of fascinating historical detail and puts the subject of Constable’s paintings into the context of life on a small farm in Suffolk in the 18th and 19th centuries.

For art historians, visitors to Constable Country and anyone who has stayed at the Flatford Field Studies Centre, as well as all those in Australia, Canada, the US, the UK and elsewhere whose ancestors left Flatford in the agricultural depressions of the 1800s and who can trace their origins back to the Lott families of Flatford, this book adds an interesting dimension to the history of Flatford and its inhabitants 200 years ago.