The sketch of Dover harbour - which Constable created on a sailing trip in 1803 - was found with a smashed frame
A long-lost drawing by famed British artist John Constable is set to make thousands at auction after being discovered in an old suitcase during a Leeds house clearance. .
“He wrote: 'I came on shore at Deal, walked to Dover and the next day returned to London'. It’s thought that Constable made as many as 130 drawings on the voyage although the whereabouts of less than fifty are known today.”Constable had been aboard an East Indiaman boat called the Coutts, which was captained by his father’s friend Robert Torin, when he made the sketch in April 1803.
Mr Cox said the painting was identified as an original Constable following the house clearance of the property of Leeds. It is thought the handwritten inscription on the back of the picture may have been penned by a family member when they later sold off his works. “Their label is also inscribed in ink ‘John Constable , Dover, circa 1803, pencil’.” Next Friday’s Autumn Fine Art Sale at David Duggleby also includes a pencil drawing of a Salford Square by noted artist L.S. Lowry. He reputedly tore the work from his sketchbook and gave it to a member of the public. And it is not only signed and dated to 1959 but appears to have Lowry’s fingerprints all over it.
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