{"id":432028,"date":"2026-02-18T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432028\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:23:09","slug":"john-constable-oil-painting-to-go-on-display-salisbury-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432028\/","title":{"rendered":"John Constable oil painting to go on display Salisbury Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Constable&#8217;s deep personal connection to Salisbury makes this an especially meaningful loan for the Museum,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dating back to the early 1820s, the painting was inspired by Constable&#8217;s multiple trips to the area during this time, including stays with the Bishop of Salisbury and his close friend, the bishop&#8217;s nephew John Fisher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The painting, which has been owned by the same family for more than 60 years and will be on loan to the museum until 2030, will be displayed alongside a drawing of Constable and engravings of his work by David Lucas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The work has been the subject of detailed research by art historian and author Timothy Wilcox, who will give public talks at the site on 11 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Born in 1776 in East Bergholt, Suffolk, Constable is best known for his depiction of the English countryside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Constable died in London in 1837.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Constable&#8217;s deep personal connection to Salisbury makes this an especially meaningful loan for the Museum,&#8221; he added. Dating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-432028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}