Constable portrait of beloved wife among rediscovered works

Drawings with ‘personal significance’ to artist have not been seen in public for decadesThree 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.Ac