1822
oil
canvas
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
View of Lower Terrace, Hampstead is a 1822 oil by John Constable, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting depicts a serene landscape with a large house in the foreground, surrounded by lush greenery and trees. The house features a prominent chimney and a fence in front, with a dirt path leading up to it. The sky above is a soft blue with white clouds. In the foreground, the artist has carefully rendered the textures of the trees and the house, creating a sense of depth and dimensionality. The use of warm colors adds to the overall sense of tranquility in the scene. If you're interested in exploring more works by this artist, you might want to look into the paintings of John Constable.
View of Lower Terrace, Hampstead is an 1822 landscape painting by the British artist John Constable. It shows the view from Constable's residence at 2 Lower Terrace in Hampstead, then located in the countryside outside London. The Constable family had moved to Hampstead in 1819 and it featured prominently in his work form this point. The work was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1822 at Somerset House. Today it is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, having been part of the Constable Bequest by the artist's daughter Isabel in 1888.
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John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition.
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