19th-century painting sold for $5,000 fetches $5.2M just over a year later

“Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows,” had been sold when experts thought it was painted by fans of artist John Constable.

The seller of a 19th-century work of art may just feel like painting the town red.

The oil landscape by John Constable fetched $5.2 million at ¬Sotheby’s in Manhattan Wednesday — just 569 days after it was bought for a paltry $5,212,Bloomberg News reported.

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Source: New York Post, January 31, 2015