| Vale of Health, Hampstead | |
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| Artist | John Constable |
| Year | c 1827 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, landscape painting |
| Dimensions | 53.3 cm× 77.6 cm(21.0 in× 30.6 in) |
| Location | Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
Vale of Health, Hampstead is a c.1827 landscape painting by the British artist John Constable. [1] It depicts a view of the Vale of Health on Hampstead Heath, today in London but at the time on the outskirts of the city. It is looking north-eastwards across Vale of Health pond towards Highgate [2] It is sometimes dated to the early 1820s. [3] Constable settled in Hampstead and produced many views of the area.
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The painting is likely to have been the work that Constable displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1827 at Somerset House under the title Hampstead Heath. [4] Acquired by the art collector John Sheepshanks it was donated by him in 1857 as part of his large-scale gift to the new Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington. [5]
