A “lost” painting by John Constable found hanging on the wall of a terrace house in Guernsey showing a different view of a farm cottage that features in one of his most celebrated works has been sold at auction for £200,000 – almost double the guide price.
The oil on canvas sketch, thought to have been done in situ in 1814, shows the rear of Willy Lott’s house, which appears in Constable’s 1821 masterpiece The Hay Wain.
