Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead

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Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead

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Date
1828
Medium
oil on canvas
Culture
England, 19th century
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
147017

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An amateur meteorologist, John Constable was most at home painting meticulously observed cloud formations, weather conditions, and natural light effects. He believed an accurate rendering of these constantly shifting elements could convey his vision of the vitality and magnificence of the English countryside. Working from the summerhouse he rented at Hampstead from 1819–26, Constable painted a landscape focusing more on the dark rain clouds than on the laborers in the foreground, keeping the details of their backbreaking work at a picturesque distance. In 1820, Constable found a retreat in Hampstead where he completed 100 studies of cloud formations, referring to the process as "skying."

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Credit line
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Provenance
1828-1864: Painted by the artist for Henry Hebbert [1783-1864], London, United Kingdom, by descent to his son, Henry Hebbert | 1864-1894: Henry Hebbert [1814-1893], London, United Kingdom | 1894: Cyrus McCormick Jr. [1859-1936], Chicago, IL, . | 1958-1959: (Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, NY, 1958 sold to Leggatt Brothers) | 1959: (Leggatt Brothers, London, United Kingdom, 1959. | by 1966: Earl of Inchcape, London, United Kingdom by 1966. | 1972: (E. V. Thaw & Co., New York. NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1972-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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