Cleveland Museum of Art

Hampstead Heath, Looking Toward Harrow

John Constable

Date

c. 1821

Medium

oil on paper, mounted on canvas

Culture

England, 19th century

Department

Modern European Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Constable was interested in the changing light effects of weather and often worked outdoors, making swift oil sketches on paper. He focused on painting the countryside of his native England, which he never left. He wrote to a fellow artist that he would “rather be a poor man [in England] than a rich man abroad.”

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