Waterloo Bridge | |
Artist: | John Constable |
Year: | 1820 |
Type: | Oil on canvas, landscape painting |
Height Imperial: | 21.6 |
Width Imperial: | 30.6 |
Metric Unit: | cm |
Imperial Unit: | in |
City: | Cincinnati, Ohio |
Waterloo Bridge is an 1820 riverscape painting by the British artist John Constable. It depicts a view of London looking eastwards towards Waterloo Bridge, which had opened three years earlier.[1] Also visible are notable other London landmarks including Somerset House and Saint Paul's Cathedral. In the foreground are waterman and bathers. Constable's patron John Fisher described it as Canaletto-like.[2] Constable spent many years working on a major project The Opening of Waterloo Bridge showing the events of 1817.[3]
Today it is in the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum in Ohio.[4] A smaller version of it is owned by the Royal Academy.[5]