Drawings with ‘personal significance’ to artist have not been seen in public for decades
Three works by the British landscape artist John Constable that have been in private collections for years are to be auctioned next month. These include a pencil drawing believed to be of his wife, Maria Bicknell, whom he married against her family’s wishes. She died from tuberculosis in 1828 at the age of 41, plunging the artist into grief and leaving him to care for their seven children.
According to Chiswick Auctions’ art specialist, Suzanne Zack, and two independent experts who have verified the three works as Constables, the drawing of Bicknell is believed to have been made towards the end of her life. The artist’s sketches and paintings of her may have helped him endure the long period the couple spent apart.
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