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Missing John Constable sketch is found

A missing sketch by celebrated artist John Constable has been rediscovered at the British Library in London.
Scholars lost track of the drawing of a church after it was sold by Constable's grandson Eustace at Christie's in 1896.

It was found in an elaborate sketchbook on the life of Constable's rival JMW Turner, which was bequeathed to the British Museum in 1919.
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