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Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows was painted by John Constable in 1831 one year after the death of his wife Maria. It is currently on display at the National Museum Wales Cardiff on loan from the Tate Gallery London. He later added nine lines from “The Seasons” by the eighteenth-century poet James Thomson that reveal the painting’s meaning: That the rainbow is a symbol of hope after a storm that follows on the death of the young Amelia in the arms of her lover Celadon.
