Fakes and Fortunes: Or Have I Found a Constable in My Attic?

Name: Fakes and Fortunes: Or Have I Found a Constable in My Attic?
Start: 2025-10-25T16:00:00+10:00
End: 2025-10-25T17:00:00+10:00

Presented by Sarah Cove

Sarah Cove ACR founded the Constable Research Project with the V&A Museum in 1986 to study John Constable RA’s materials and techniques. She has since examined over 250 works worldwide, from tiny oil sketches, to the ‘six-footers’, including the iconic The Haywain (1821). She has developed a technical chronology that assists with the dating of his known works, few of which were signed and dated by the artist. Sarah has been instrumental in the attribution of three significant Constable oils for BBC1’s Fake or Fortune? series. This lecture gives a ‘behind the scenes’ look at these decisions and describes some extraordinary successes but also crashing disappointments.

Dates and Locations

Saturday 25 October 2025 Noosa (QLD)

Sunday 26 October 2025 Sunshine Coast (QLD)

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