A painting by John Constable has sold for £22,441,250 - a world record price at auction for the Romantic artist.
The Lock, finished in 1824, is the fifth in a celebrated series of six large-scale paintings of the Stour Valley that Constable exhibited between 1819 and 1825.
Advertisement
The Constable painting of the Stour valley sold for £22.4m
The painting, remarkable for its excellent state of preservation and from the collection of Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, sold tonight at Christie's in London.