[3][4] The National Gallery of Art holds this painting as one of its highlights:[3]A pleasant sense of ease and harmony pervades this landscape of almost photographic clarity.

[3][7] Constable's art is always penetrated by longing, melancholy and a yearning for the simple, natural life, for a bucolic, pastoral idyll, to rural subjects and aspects of life in the countryside, a "golden age" when people lived together in harmony with nature, a world on its way of disappearing when he painted his landscapes thanks to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

Constable's art was rather unconventional for his time, and he loved simple things, a natural landscape without the ruins, dramatic effects or exalted, often excessive feelings, like the ones displayed in the paintings of his contemporary, J. M. W. Turner.

His landscapes are flooded by a silvery brilliant light in the water and air and in the sky, and are characterised by a special intensity that is such an important feature of this artist's works.

In the video game Lethal Company, at the Manor interior map, this paint can be viewed by the player at some of the walls, behind a big window frame.