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picture was sold for 6,200 guineas. Constable's money affairs are

somewhat of a puzzle. His share of his father's estate was ..Z4,000; his wife's grandfather left him the same sum. From another testator he received .00,000. And he sold many pictures, not at what we call high prices, still for fairly large sums ; yet he was always in difficulties. Wagner's Life is full of curious things. One of them is that he showed no early liking for music. It is an interesting but somewhat melancholy story.