{"id":513959,"date":"2026-04-05T09:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513959\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:17:11","slug":"john-constables-oil-study-a-major-find-says-suffolk-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513959\/","title":{"rendered":"John Constable&#8217;s oil study a major find, says Suffolk historian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The discovery of an oil study by John Constable that could sell for about \u00a3350,000 at auction has been described as &#8220;very significant&#8221; by a historian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Constable&#8217;s practice painting for his 1826 artwork The Cornfield will be sold at auction on 5 June, as part of Heritage Auctions&#8217; European Art event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was previously believed that the preparatory piece, which, similar to his final version, depicts a lane leading from East Bergholt, Suffolk, towards Dedham, Essex, did not exist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it was later found hanging in the Jefferson Historical Society &amp; Museum in Jefferson, Texas, which Dr John Paul-Stonard, an art author and historian from Suffolk, said was a &#8220;major&#8221; find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The discovery of an oil study by John Constable that could sell for about \u00a3350,000 at auction has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513960,"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-513959","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\/513959","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=513959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}