Landscape with Rainbow, Henley-on-Thames

Landscape with Rainbow, Henley-on-Thames
Artist	Jan Siberechts
Year	c.1690
Type	Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions	82.5 cm× 103 cm(32.5 in× 41 in)
Location	Tate Britain, London

Landscape with Rainbow, Henley-on-Thames is a c.1690 landscape painting by the Flemish artist Jan Siberechts featuring a panoramic view of the town of Henley-on-Thames on the border of Berkshire and Oxfordshire in Southern England. ^[1]

Siberechts settled in England, where he became known for painting birdseye views of country estates. He was an influential figure in early British landscape painting. ^[2] While the perspective is distorted, it is essentially topographically accurate. The painting is in the Tate Britain in London, one of the earliest landscapes in the collection, having been acquired in 1967. ^[3]

In 1698, Siberechts produced another panoramic view of the town, Henley from the Wargrave Road , held by the River & Rowing Museum in Henley. ^[4]

References

1. Vickery, p.28
2. The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century. The Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Vol. 3. p. xl.
3. "Landscape with Rainbow, Henley-on-Thames – c.1690, Jan Siberechts". UK: Tate . Retrieved 25 October 2025.
4. "Oil painting – 'Henley from the Wargrave Road' by Jan Siberechts". UK: River & Rowing Museum . Retrieved 21 October 2025.

Bibliography

• Galinou, Mireille. City Merchants and the Arts, 1670–1720. Oblong, 2004.
• Vickery, Margaret Birney. Landscape and Infrastructure: Reimagining the Pastoral Paradigm for the Twenty-First Century. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.