Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close, John Constable, 1820

John ConstableVereinigtes Königreich, 1776–1837

Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close

1820 · Painting

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About the painting

Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close is an 1820 landscape painting by the British artist John Constable. It depicts a view of Salisbury Cathedral in the English county of Wiltshire, presenting it from the Lower Marsh Close.

Salisbury appeared in a number of Constable's paintings. He was connected to the city through his friends and patrons the Bishop of Salisbury and his nephew John Fisher. Today the painting is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art of Washington, having been acquired in 1937.

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Angaben

Inventarnummer: 1937.1.108

What it shows

Landscape United Kingdom England Salisbury Salisbury Cathedral

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British Romantic

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Derweil im Leben von John Constable

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1821
“The Hay Wain” at the Royal Academy
The picture, shown as “Landscape: Noon”, found no buyer, but it was seen by the painter Théodore Géricault and the writer Charles Nodier. According to Delacroix, Géricault went back to France quite stunned and invited Constable to Paris, while Nodier urged French artists to look to nature rather than to trips to Rome.
1821
“I should paint my own places best”
In a letter to his friend John Fisher in 1821 Constable wrote that he should paint his own places best, and that painting is but another word for feeling. The Dedham Vale around his home came to be known as “Constable Country”.
1821
Son born: Charles Golding Constable
23 October 1821
To Fisher: “I have done a good deal of skying”
Constable wrote to Fisher that he had done a good deal of skying and was determined to conquer all the difficulties that remained. He made cloud studies, noting the weather, direction of light and time of day on the back, and held the sky to be the key note of a landscape, drawing on the meteorologist Luke Howard’s classification of clouds.
1822/1823
Daughter born: Isabel Constable