Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow

Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow is an 1836 landscape painting by the English artist John Constable.^[1] It depicts a scene from Branch Hill in Hampstead overlooking Hampstead Heath.

Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow
Artist	John Constable
Year	1836
Type	Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions	76.2 cm × 50.8 cm (30.0 in × 20.0 in)
Location	Tate Britain, London

While Constable had previously painted several similar views this work, painted near the end of his career, is notable for the addition of a windmill and a rainbow.^[2] He was pleased with the result "one of my best bits of Heath" and what he described as the "fresh" and "sunshiney" effect.^[3]

Today it is in the collection of the Tate Britain having been bequeathed by his daughter Isabel in 1888^[4]

See also

• Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, an 1831 painting by Constable also featuring a rainbow
• List of paintings by John Constable