Fake or Fortune?: Constable

Art series with Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould. The team try to find out whether a beautiful English landscape is a lost masterpiece by John Constable and quite possibly an alternative view of his greatest work, The Hay Wain. Now owned by a Gloucestershire businessman, the painting appears to have all the hallmarks of Constable's sketches and, if genuine, it could be worth at least £2 million. The trouble is, Constable is one of the most faked artists of the 19th century. Thirty years ago, several top experts decided that it was not an authentic work. It is a particularly personal case for Philip Mould, who briefly owned the painting in the past but had to let it go after he failed in his attempts to prove its authenticity. Now scientific analysis techniques have moved on and neglected records can be searched more deeply online, can the latest advances and deep research into the picture's provenance turn up enough evidence to prove that it is a genuine work by John Constable?