For the first time in an auction .. View 3 paintings of John Constable including his beloved painting

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Three works by British landscape artist John Constable, who have been in private collections for years at auction next month, will be presented on June 19 for the first time.

The paintings include one pencil-painted pencil that he believes is for his wife, Maria Beckenell, who married her against the wishes of her family and died of tuberculosis in 1828 at the age of 41. The artist sank in grief over his care of his seven children.

John Constable is a British painter who lived between 1776 and 1837. He is one of the most important artists of the Romantic movement in his country, and is famous for his natural paintings of the British countryside. His most famous works are: River View and Mill in Flatford, 1817, Tate Gallery.

According to the art expert at Chiswick Auctions, Suzanne Zack, and two independent experts who achieved the three works as Constable, it is believed that Picnic's painting was made at the end of her life.

Constable wore black only after Beckenle's death, and according to his friend and biographer Charles Leslie, he was "prey to sad thoughts and anxiety." When the artist died nine years later, at the age of 60 years, he was buried next to Beckenl in the courtyard of Hampstead Church. The plot is expected to be sold for up to 12,000 pounds sterling.

An oil painting believed to be for Constable's uncle, Abram, was sold to a family of art historian Ronald Bremer Beckett for 70 years. Beckett lent a portrait of a gentleman at the Constable exhibition in Manchester in 1956 but was not seen in public places Since then, in addition to collecting drawings and paintings, Beckett has published eight volumes of Constable's correspondence before his death in 1970, and is expected to be sold for between 30,000 and 50,000 pounds sterling.

The third is a pencil drawing, thought to be from a scene near Framlingham Castle in Suffolk, the province where Constable lived and painted many of his famous landscapes, including the Hai Win district.

The drawing – long and descriptive, is expected to be a landscape of the river: a group of long trees on the left, a river curve with willows on the far bank on the right, in the background a hill with a castle – for sale up to £ 8,000.

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