Painted in 1821, The Hay Wain is not only widely regarded as John Constable’s (1776-1837) finest work but one of the most famous paintings in English history. Now, a long-lost oil sketch by Constable of the rural scene has been discovered in a private collection in Guernsey and could fetch up to £120,000 at auction.
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A ‘ghostly’ new Van Gogh self-portrait has appeared at the National Galleries of Scotland
The preparations for an upcoming exhibition organised by the National Galleries of Scotland and scheduled to open on 30th July has prompted a new discovery. A Taste for Impressionism: Modern French Art from Millet to Matisse promises to tell “the remarkable story of how Scotland became home to one of the world’s greatest collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art”, but before it has even opened it has attracted media attention, as new research on Vincent Van Gogh’s Head of a Peasant Woman (1884) in the museum’s permanent collection, has led to the discovery of a new self-portrait by the artist.
Continue readingAmateur unearths treasure trove of Roman coins in Switzerland
An amateur Swiss metal detectorist has recently uncovered a remarkable find in a forest near Wildenstein Castle in Bubendorf, Switzerland. Daniel Lüdin identified a clay pot containing nearly 1,300 Roman coins which, following expert analysis, can be dated to the reign of Constantine the Great, who ruled from 306-337 C.E.
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