Constable Found In Turner Book

The Independent reports that the mystery of a lost sketch by John Constable that left the artistic community puzzled over its whereabouts for more than a century has finally been solved. The British Library will announce today that it has found the art work buried in its archive along with a number of long-forgotten works and authentic 18th-century documents, including letters by landscape painter J M W Turner. The discovery of the pencil drawing, entitled Hyam Church and featuring a view of a church in Suffolk, was made as Felicity Myrone, a curator of topography at the Library, leafed through a 13-volume collection in search of maps. The sketch was found inside George Walter Thornbury's biography of Turner, which had been borrowed countless times. The biography also contained a series of letters by Turner and various materials from eminent artists of the same era, tucked within its pages. Because its whereabouts has been unknown, the sketch has never been mentioned in any catalogues of the English painter's work. Scholars lost sight of the drawing after it was sold by Constable's grandson, Eustace, at Christie's in 1896, in a collection of his grandfather's work. (For full source and full article click the Headline). Irish Art