An emerging English artist, prominent realistic landscape painter John Constable is represented in the museum with his small work View of Highgate from Hampstead Heath. Constable praises the beauty of the English countryside, glorifying local sites in his works. The artist was one of the first in the history of European painting to create his landscapes on the basis of plein-air studies. Therefore, it was very important for him to have direct contact with nature, which he always combined with a deep study of it. The museum work is first and foremost like a study, but it also possesses a sensation of grandeur in its compositional structure. The artist’s bold and agitated brush strokes, the freshness and living energy of the colors, and the gradation of lighting with its delicate splashes recreate the cold English sky, conveying the harmony and substantivity of nature. The palette has a richness of color, free of dull hues, and the painting strokes are textured, at times even rough. These attributes create the effect of an unusual vividness in the landscape motif. 

Constable’s new painting system had a great impact on French landscape painters, primarily on romanticists and artists in the emerging realism trend in art.