Masterpiece watercolours and drawings
Exhibition held at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight, 28 June to 9 November 2008 and The Herbert in Coventry, 13 January to 22 March 2009.
Accession number LL 3947
Watercolour, 21.8 x 51.9cm
This is one of two watercolours displayed in the exhibition that were purchased by Lever as genuine David Cox paintings but have since been confirmed as forgeries.
This raises the possibility that the art dealer James Orrock was involved in forging works and that his dealings with Lever were at times less than honest.
It is a Constable composition but is by a different hand.