A previously unrecorded sketch by one of the nation’s most famous painters is going under the hammer in North Yorkshire for more than £150,000.

Artwork - John Constables art (Image: Darius Laws ... "I adore living in the heart of the Dedham Vale National Landscape and what better story to tell than our nation's favourite landscape ...

The artwork, believed to have been created between 1809 and 1814, is of the countryside that surrounded the artist's childhood home.