A stunning John Constable Sketch that had not been included in the literature before is on the way to the auction

A previously unknown oil sketch by the renowned British landscape artist John Constable goes to auction. The early 19th-century artwork shows Dedham ValeA green, vast valley about 70 miles northeast of London. It is thought that it is an early version of Painting from 1815 from Constable View of Dedham Vale from East Bergholt.

The 12 by 15-inch sketch will be sold next month at Tennants Auctioners, and this is expected to reach no less than £ 200,000 (about $ 250,000), according to a rack from the auction house. Constable’s’ impressive and powerful early square Sketch ‘shows the green, rolling countryside near his youth center. “I will never stop painting such places,” he later written. “They have always been my joy.”

“Oil sketches, just like drawings, have a directness – a direct link to the spirit and working methods of an artist,” says Jane Tennant, director and auctioneer with tennants, in the statement. As she says BBC News“Georgia Levy-Collins,” It will undoubtedly cause great excitement in the auction world. “

Born in 1776Teached a young agent to paint for the first time from a Suffolk -Loodgieter and amateur artist. When he grew up, he outlined the countryside: the natural scenes ‘made me a painter and I am grateful’, he later written. “The sound of water escapes from Molendammen … Willows, old rotten boards, slimy posts and brickwork. I like such things. “

Constable started studying art in 1802 on the Royal Academy SchoolsWhere he rejected classical landscape painter styles in favor of the leadership of ‘nature itself’. When he came home, Constable developed a “colorful and very expressive oil -sketch”, which is clear in the piece that is auctioned, according to the explanation.

“Performed when he just started his extraordinary career, he managed to penetrate the sketchy painted landscape with so much vitality with his agile treatment of dramatic light and shade,” says the auction house.

Based on the style of the sketch, experts dated it between 1809 and 1814, as Tennant says in a video. The piece shows Dedham Vale from the north and looks at the nearby village of Langham. Compared to similar dated Constable sketches, it has ‘a more dramatic use of light and shade’, illustrated by ‘eruption of sunlight through the clouds that illuminate the bottom of the valley’, Tennant adds.

An early sketch by John Constable

She suggests that the sketch is an early version of the finished painting by Constable, View of Dedham Vale from East Bergholt. The last painting includes extra people and animals in the foreground, but keeps the same sunlight through distant clouds.

The artistic attraction of Constable on nature was steeped in sentimentality. Like him ever written For a friend: “I have to paint my own places – painting is just another word to feel.” Due to the special attention of the artist for Dedham Vale, the area earned the name ‘Constable country. “

“It is not every day that a work by Constable comes the auction”, as Tennant says Artnet‘s Brian Boucher. Although the owners of the sketch always knew that it was an agent work, “it has not been included in the literature before,” she adds. “But as we have seen time and time again, that makes the art world interesting!”