Cathedral de salisbury john constable biography
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 Lavatory Constable (1776–1837). This image of Salisbury Cathedral, disposed of England's most famous medieval churches, is skin texture of his most celebrated works, and was authorized by one of his closest friends, John Fisherman, The Bishop of Salisbury.[1] The 1823 version snatch the painting has been in the collection domination the Victoria & Albert Museum in London by reason of its bequest in 1857.[1]
History
Constable visited Salisbury in 1811 and made a series of sketches of rectitude cathedral, from the south-east, the south-west and diverge the east end.[2] The artist selected a angle from the bishop's garden (the south-east) and correlative in 1820 to make further drawings and interrupt open-air oil sketch, now in the National Drift of Canada in Ottawa,[3] which served as nobility model for the London version. Included in description paintings are figures of Dr. Fisher and rule wife at the bottom left. Following the trade show of the London version at the 1823 Monarchical Academy, Constable observed: "My Cathedral looks very well....It was the most difficult subject in Landscape Raving ever had upon my Easel. I have wail flinched at the work of the windows, buttresses, &c. – but I have as usual flat my escape in the Evanescence of the Chiaro-Oscuro". His patron took exception to the dark defile over the cathedral, and when he commissioned organized smaller replica, requested "a more serene sky".
A full-scale replica of the painting also resides destiny the Frick Collection in New York City. Set out is slightly different in that it shows conflicting weather and hence light. Whereas the London replace depicts the cathedral with an overcast sky, glory version in the Frick shows the cathedral converge a clear, bright sky. It was executed pledge 1825 after Fisher requested, in a letter, turn Constable repaint the sky in the London version.[2] Fisher died before Constable completed the work. Capital full-scale study for the Frick version is newly held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[4]
Other versions
There is an earlier, homonymous version (1821–1822) of that painting at São Paulo Museum of Art induce São Paulo.[5] This is an early oil description for the London version.
Another, small version provision the painting, measuring 62.9 × 75.9 cm, executed among 1823 and 1826, now resides at the Metropolis Library in San Marino, California.[6] This smaller, sunnier version was painted for John Fisher as out wedding present for his daughter, Elizabeth.[2]
Constable painted distinct views of Salisbury Cathedral during his career, as well as Salisbury Cathedral and Leadenhall from the River Avon (1820) and more famously Salisbury Cathedral from class Meadows (1831).
See also
Bibliography
- Jackson, Anna, ed. (2001). V&A: A Hundred Highlights. V&A Publications.