A Lost John Constable Masterpiece Is Discovered in East Texas

A Lost John Constable Masterpiece Is Discovered in East Texas

It was standing room only at the National Gallery in London when the newly discovered full-scale study of John Constable’s The Cornfield was placed side-by-side with the final version for the first time. Constable’s preparatory work, valued at $500,000 and headed to auction on June 5, had been hidden in plain sight on the walls … Continued The post How a $500,000 Masterpiece Was Discovered in an East Texas Courthouse appeared first on D Magazine.

The small rural American city where an oil sketch by John Constable hid for decades in plain view

It was only in 2017 that auction-house specialists began to suspect that there may be more to the painting.