Mould twice sold genuine Constable
A painting that dealer Philip Mould twice bought and sold more than 15 years ago has been attributed to John Constable – “the most forged artist of the 19th century” – in the first episode in the new series of the BBC’s Fake or Fortune?
On Sunday, August 20, the programme revealed that a painting sold to businessman Henry Reed for £35,000 was a compositional sketch by Constable of Willy Lott’s cottage, the same location that features in The Hay Wain.