John Constable’s The Hay Wain will go on display next year in his home county for the first time to mark the 250th anniversary of the artist’s birth.
The oil painting will be exhibited at Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich next year.
The 1821 artwork, which depicts a rural scene near the River Stour in Suffolk, will be on loan from the National Gallery, in London, and accompanied by its preparatory sketches.
Emma Roodhouse, the collections and learning curator for art at Colchester and Ipswich Museums, said having The Hay Wain in the county for the first time had always been an ambition.