Boat-Building Near Flatford Mill is an 1815 landscape painting by the English artist John Constable. It depicts the building of a boat at a dry dock along the River Stour that was owned by Constable’s father in East Bergholt， England.

《弗拉特福德磨坊附近的造船场景》是英国画家约翰·康斯特布尔1815年创作的一幅风景画。画面描绘了英格兰东贝格霍尔特地区斯托尔河畔一座干船坞的造船场景，那座船坞是康斯特布尔父亲的财产。

The painting portrays all the activities that you expect to see at a boat shop. These include preparing wood for building a new boat; testing a boat by the river; and lastly a man working on the boat by docks. Also， the workshop is equipped with tools used in boat building.

画中呈现了人们在船坞会看到的各种劳作场面：为建造新船准备木料，在河边测试船只，还有人在码头边对船只进行最后的加工。船坞里还四散放置着一些造船工具。

Constable’s compositions were clearly dictated by what he saw in front of him， the nature of the English landscape， of rural pastures he had grown up with， using symmetrical compositions and scenes that focused on manmade buildings such as a mill， a church， a cottage， or as we see here， a barge.

康斯特布尔的创作显然来自他亲眼所见，英格兰的自然风貌，他成长其间的乡野牧场。