An art expert has said he is convinced that a painting in The Salisbury Museum is the original by John Constable and a version in the Louvre in Paris is a copy created by him later.<\/p>\n
The oil painting has gone on display for the first time in 60 years at the museum in Wiltshire having previously been in a private collection.<\/p>\n
A View of Salisbury from Harnham, an oil painting created in 1820, depicts the city and its cathedral and is on loan to the museum until 2030.<\/p>\n
Art historian Timothy Wilcox, who has thoroughly researched the painting, said it was “downgraded 50 years ago” because it was thought to be a copy of one in the Louvre but he was “now convinced this is the original”.<\/p>\n
The Salisbury Museum described the work as a “hidden masterpiece” and said displaying it, exactly 250 years after Constable’s birth, was a “landmark moment” for its collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An art expert has said he is convinced that a painting in The Salisbury Museum is the original…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-634868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634868","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=634868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}