Ipswich Museum Acquires Constable Album
February 2 2021
Picture: Ipswich Museum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Ipswich Museum have acquired the Mason family album which was offered for sale at Sotheby's last year. The unrecorded album contains four works by John Constable including drawings of his family members. The album was purchased for £24,000 through funding from the Friends of the Ipswich Museums, Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, Art Fund and Ipswich Council’s Felix Cobbold Bequest.
The council run museum were sure, it seems, to include this particular line in their press release:
The album was bought for £24,000 - but no council taxpayers' money was used.
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