Waterloo Bridge (Constable)

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Waterloo Bridge
John Constable - Waterloo Bridge - Google Art Project.jpg
Artist John Constable
Year1820
Type Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions55 cm× 78 cm(21.6 in× 30.6 in)
Location Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati

Waterloo Bridge is an oil on canvas riverscape painting by the British artist John Constable, from 1820. It depicts a view of London looking eastwards towards Waterloo Bridge, which had opened three years earlier. [1] Also visible are notable other London landmarks including Somerset House and Saint Paul's Cathedral. In the foreground are waterman and bathers. Constable's patron John Fisher described it as Canaletto-like. [2] Constable spent many years working on a major project The Opening of Waterloo Bridge , showing the events of 1817, which was finally displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1832. [3]

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Today it is in the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum, in Ohio. [4] A smaller version is owned by the Royal Academy of Arts, in London. [5]

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References

  1. Reynolds p.150
  2. Bailey p.148
  3. Reynolds p.156
  4. Cincinnati Art Museum
  5. Bailey p.148

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