Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath is a landscape painting by the British artist John Constable.Noon & Bann p.204 Painted between 1824 and 1825 it depicts the view from Branch Hill in Hampstead. Constable had lived in Hampstead, then beyond the outskirts of London, since 1819 and painted many views of the area. It was sold in 1825 to the collector Francis Darby. The painting shows some carts in the foreground as well as Branch Hill Pond. In the background are the fields around Harrow and the villages of Kilburn and Hendon. In the extreme distance is Windsor Castle.Reynolds p.128
It is now part of the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.https://www.vmfa.museum/artworks/branch-hill-pond-hampstead-heath-59421 Constable made a number of variations on the composition, including one now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London that was exhibited at the 1828 Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition.Reynolds p.130
See also List of paintings by John Constable Hampstead Heath, Branch Hill Pond, an 1828 painting by Constable of a similar view
References
Bibliography Noon, Patrick & Bann, Stephen. Constable to Delacroix: British Art and the French Romantics. Tate, 2003. Reynolds, Graham. Constable's England. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983.