Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow

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Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow
John Constable (1776-1837) - Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow - N01275 - National Gallery.jpg
Artist John Constable
Year1836
Type Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions76.2 cm× 50.8 cm(30.0 in× 20.0 in)
Location Tate Britain, London

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.

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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]

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References

  1. Bailey p.317
  2. Parris p.166
  3. Bishop p.98
  4. "'Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow', John Constable, 1836".

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