The sketchbook that has been obtained for Ipswich Museums with work by John Constable.
- Credit: Ipswich Council
Ipswich Museums have taken ownership of four early John Constable sketches after they went up for sale at Sothebys.
They were acquired for the Ipswich collection through funding from the Friends of the Ipswich Museums, Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, Art Fund and Ipswich Council’s Felix Cobbold Bequest.
One of the sketches from John Constable s book.
- Credit: Ipswich Council
They include a landscape painted when Constable was aged just 17 and is among his very earliest surviving works.
The sketchbook that has been obtained for Ipswich Museums with work by John Constable.
- Credit: Ipswich Council
Ipswich Museums have taken ownership of four early John Constable sketches after they went up for sale at Sothebys.
They were acquired for the Ipswich collection through funding from the Friends of the Ipswich Museums, Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, Art Fund and Ipswich Council’s Felix Cobbold Bequest.
One of the sketches from John Constable s book.
- Credit: Ipswich Council
They include a landscape painted when Constable was aged just 17 and is among his very earliest surviving works.