Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow

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
ArtistJohn Constable
Year1836
TypeOil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions76.2 cm × 50.8 cm (30.0 in × 20.0 in)
LocationTate 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]

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  • 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.