Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow is an 1836 landscape painting by the English artist John Constable.[1] It depicts a scene from Branch Hill in Hampstead overlooking Hampstead Heath.
| Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow | |
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| Artist | John Constable |
| Year | 1836 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, landscape painting |
| Dimensions | 76.2 cm × 50.8 cm (30.0 in × 20.0 in) |
| Location | Tate Britain, London |
While Constable had previously painted several similar views this work, painted near the end of his career, is notable for the addition of a windmill and a rainbow.[2] He was pleased with the result "one of my best bits of Heath" and what he described as the "fresh" and "sunshiney" effect.[3]
Today it is in the collection of the Tate Britain having been bequeathed by his daughter Isabel in 1888[4]
See also
edit- Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, an 1831 painting by Constable also featuring a rainbow
- List of paintings by John Constable
References
edit- ^ Bailey p.317
- ^ Parris p.166
- ^ Bishop p.98
- ^ "'Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow', John Constable, 1836".
Bibliography
edit- Bailey, Anthony. John Constable: A Kingdom of his Own. Random House, 2012.
- Bishop, Peter. An Archetypal Constable: National Identity and the Geography of Nostalgia. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995.
- Parris, Leslie. The Tate Gallery Constable Collection: A Catalogue. Tate Gallery Publications Department, 1981.
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