Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds
John Constable · ca. 1825 · Oil on canvas
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About this picture
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds is a public-domain painting by John Constable, dated ca. 1825. Oil on canvas. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds” (ca. 1825) comes out of Constable’s Suffolk studies: clouds, canals, and mills sketched in oil outdoors, then used for a larger picture.
About the artist
John Constable (1776–1837) painted the Suffolk landscape he grew up in: canals, clouds, and mills studied from oil sketches made outdoors. Those cloud studies were working notes for larger exhibition pictures.
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