Hampstead Heath with the Salt Box

Hampstead Heath with the Salt Box is a c.1820 landscape painting by the British artist John Constable.^[1] It depicts a view of Hampstead Heath looking across Branch Hill towards Harrow and Highgate, with the spire of St Mary's Church, Harrow seen in the distance on the extreme left. It features a view of the house popularly known as the "Salt Box" due to its design. At the time Hampstead was a village on the rural outskirts of London. It was likely amongst the first Constable produced of the area after first moving there for his wife Maria's health. The viewpoint is from nearby Albion Cottage which they rented in 1819.^[2]

Hampstead Heath with the Salt Box
Artist	John Constable
Year	c.1820
Type	Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions	38.4 cm × 67 cm (15.1 in × 26 in)
Location	Tate Britain, London

In his influential 1843 biography Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, Charles Robert Leslie devoted more attention to this painting than any other.^[3] The painting is now in the collection of the Tate Britain in Pimlico, having been donated by Constable's daughter Isabel in 1887. An oil sketch in the Victoria and Albert Museum features the Salt Box from a closer distance.^[4]

See also

• List of paintings by John Constable