{"id":252905,"date":"2025-11-09T10:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T10:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/252905\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T10:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T10:46:28","slug":"john-constable-suffolk-drawing-up-for-sale-after-200-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/252905\/","title":{"rendered":"John Constable Suffolk drawing up for sale after 200 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A drawing by one of Britain&#8217;s most renowned landscape artists will be sold for the first time in nearly 200 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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&#8217;s family mill was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lara L&#8217;vov-Basirov, associate director and head of Old Master, British &amp; European Pictures at Roseberys, said it was a &#8220;wonderfully expressive&#8221; piece of work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drawing by one of Britain&#8217;s most renowned landscape artists will be sold for the first time in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-252905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}