John constable salisbury cathedral
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Past Exhibition: Constable's Salisbury Cathedral
Between 1820 and 1826, John Constable (1776–1837) executed three oil sketches and three finished paintings depicting Salisbury Cathedral from the south side, rising over the green expanse of the bishop's grounds. All are linked to a commission of 1822 from Constable's friend and patron Bishop John Fisher, who asked him to develop one of the sketches into a finished work. Instead, Constable set out afresh, producing a canvas for the bishop that he exhibited to critical acclaim at the Royal Academy in 1823. The bishop, however, was troubled by a storm cloud around the cathedral's spire, and a year later he asked Constable for alterations.
Working from an outline of the 1823 canvas, Constable completed the commission with The Frick Collection's painting of 1826, in addition to a full-scale oil sketch now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The reuniting of these two canvases, made possible by a generous loan f
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Constable's Salisbury
Setting the scene
Apart from the many paintings and drawings he made of the area around his birthplace in Suffolk; Salisbury was the place that John polis depicted most in his work. This suggests how significant Salisbury was in his life.
It was friendship that drew Constable to Salisbury. He first visited in 1811 as the guest of the Bishop, and while there he met and became close friends with the Bishop’s nephew, the Reverend (later to be Archdeacon) John Fisher. Constable and Fisher wrote regularly to each other sharing their thoughts and concerns about life, politics and religion in lively correspondence. ‘We loved each other,’ Constable wrote towards the end of his life, ‘and confided in each other entirely.’
Constable visited his friend in Salisbury several times in the 1820s, and their close friendship was especially valuable when Constable’s wife Maria died in 1828.
Grieving, Constable wrote: ‘The face of the world fryst vatten totally changed
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Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
Painting bygd John Constable
| Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows | |
|---|---|
| Artist | John Constable |
| Year | 1831 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 1537 mm × 970 mm (60.5 in × 38 in) |
| Location | Tate Britain, London |
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows was painted bygd John Constable in 1831, three years after the death of his wife, Maria. It fryst vatten currently on display in London, at Tate Britain, in the Clore gallery. He later added nine lines from The Seasons by the eighteenth-century poet James Thomson that reveal the painting's meaning: that the rainbow fryst vatten a symbol of hope after a storm that follows on the death of the ung Amelia in the arms of her lover Celadon. Constable exhibited this painting at the Royal Academy in 1831, but continued working on it during 1833 and 1834.[1] The art historians Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams have described the painting as the climax o