{"id":126684,"date":"2025-11-07T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/126684\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:00:12","slug":"john-constable-suffolk-drawing-up-for-sale-after-200-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/126684\/","title":{"rendered":"John Constable Suffolk drawing up for sale after 200 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RoseberysRoseberys<\/p>\n

The work entitled A House and Haystack at Flatford is being auctioned for the first time since its creation in 1827<\/p>\n

A drawing by one of Britain’s most renowned landscape artists will be sold for the first time in nearly 200 years.<\/p>\n

The work by Suffolk-born artist John Constable was created in 1827 and depicts Valley Farm in the Suffolk village of Flatford, near where the artist’s family mill was.<\/p>\n

The chalk drawing has been held in private hands for almost two centuries and on Wednesday will be auctioned off by Roseberys, with an estimated price of \u00a320,000-\u00a330,000.<\/p>\n

Lara L’vov-Basirov, associate director and head of Old Master, British & European Pictures at Roseberys, said it was a “wonderfully expressive” piece of work. <\/p>\n

\"MattMatt Marvel\/BBC<\/p>\n

Valley Farm in Flatford was built in the 15th Century and is a Grade I listed building<\/p>\n

Entitled A House and Haystack at Flatford, the drawing was inscribed by Constable with “Flatford\/13 Oct\/1827” in the lower right coroner. <\/p>\n

The artist gifted it to his second son, Charles Golding Constable, and it depicts the warden’s house at Valley Farm.<\/p>\n

Following Charles’s death in 1878, the drawing passed to family friend, James Henry Beazley.<\/p>\n

From then the work descended directly to the current owner and this will be the first time the work has left private ownership since being created.<\/p>\n

\"RoseberysRoseberys<\/p>\n

The work has been held in private hands for almost 200 years<\/p>\n

“This wonderfully expressive drawing offers an intimate look at the Suffolk countryside that shaped Constable’s aesthetic imagination,” Ms L’vov Basirov said.<\/p>\n

“With provenance stemming directly from the artist, it’s a tangible link to his life and practice.”<\/p>\n

Born in 1776 in East Bergholt, Constable is best known for his depiction of the English countryside, particularly in the Dedham Vale in Suffolk and Essex.<\/p>\n

His father owned Flatford Mill and Constable’s most famous work, The Hay Wain<\/a>, was set close to the mill.<\/p>\n

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