A previously unknown oil sketch by the renowned British landscape artist John Constable is headed to auction. The early 19th-century artwork depicts Dedham Vale, a green, sprawling valley some 70 ...

Previously unrecorded, the sketch sold for $415,000 after being held in a family collection for decades. John Constable, Dedham Vale looking towards Langham (circa 1809–14). Courtesy Tennants.

John Constable’s “The Hay Wain” (1821), the Romantic artist’s best known landscape, revered in his native England as an authentic image of its rural countryside, was among the works ...

The buyer’s son, Rob Darvell, a 45-year-old graphic designer from East London, was told that the painting of a rural scene in Suffolk (the artist’s home county), is in fact a John Constable ...

A Stunning John Constable Sketch That Hadn’t Previously Been Recorded in the Literature Is Heading to Auction Experts think the early 19th-century artwork could be an early draft of the British ...