A CONSTABLE masterpiece is to be recreated - 200 years on from the original.
Twelve community groups have been selected to to recreate a section of John Constable's famous painting Wivenhoe Park.
Each will have two months to complete their work and the finished piece will be put together for the launch of the hotel’s Constable exhibition in September.
Wivenhoe House sits within the grounds of the University of Essex and is a hotel and conference centre as well as being used for undergraduates studying for degrees in hospitality.
John Constable was commissioned to paint Wivenhoe Park by the Rebow family who were residents of Wivenhoe House in 1816.
Constable was a struggling artist at the time but this commission gave him enough money to marry his lifelong love, Maria Bicknell.
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