Salisbury cathedral print by john constable biography
Salisbury cathedral print by john constable biography
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Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds
Painting by John Constable
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds is an 1823 landscape painting by the English landscape painter John Constable (1776–1837).
This image of Salisbury Cathedral, one of England's most famous medieval churches, is one of his most celebrated works, and was commissioned by one of his closest friends, John Fisher, The Bishop of Salisbury.[1] The 1823 version of the painting has been in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London since its bequest in 1857.[1]
History
Constable visited Salisbury in 1811 and made a series of sketches of the cathedral, from the south-east, the south-west and from the east end.[2] The artist selected a viewpoint from the bishop's garden (the south-east) and returned in 1820 to make further drawings and an open-air oil sketch, now in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa,[3] which served as the model for