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Constable Painting Sold for $5,212 in 2013 Worth Millions
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The seller of a landscape painting by an early 19th-century artist has turned close to a 100,000 percent profit in two years.
John Constable’s “Salisbury Cathedral From the Meadows,” which was purchased for just $5,212 in 2013 at Christie’s after it was attributed to a follower of the artist, fetched $5.2 million yesterday at an Old Masters sale at Sotheby’s in New York. Now credited to the English painter, the canvas is a preparatory oil sketch for an 1830 work that’s owned by the Tate in London. Neither the seller or buyer were identified.