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Hampstead Heath, Looking Toward Harrow
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About this work
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.”
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineHampstead Heath, Looking Toward Harrow, c. 1821. John Constable (British, 1776–1837). Oil on paper, mounted on canvas; framed: 39 x 44.5 x 5 cm (15 3/8 x 17 1/2 x 1 15/16 in.); unframed: 25.9 x 31.3 cm (10 3/16 x 12 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade, 1916.1027
