John Constable’s Hampstead home was the Georgian townhouse at 40 Well Walk, where he lived with his family from 1827 until his death in 1837. The house is now Grade II listed, marked by a blue plaque, and sits just about 200 metres from Hampstead Heath, which strongly shaped his later landscape work.
 
Constable had been visiting Hampstead from 1819, but it became his permanent London base in 1827. At the time, Hampstead was still semi-rural, giving him the skies, open views, and changing weather he loved to paint. Works such as Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow grew directly out of this period.
 
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40 Well Walk was rented for about £52 a year when he and his family moved in. His wife Maria died there ijust a year later after the birth of their seventh child, and Constable raised the children alone afterward. He is also buried in St John-at-Hampstead churchyard with Maria and two of their children.