The sale of a painting by artist Constable for £ 22.4 million

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Painting dating back to 1824 and depicting rural life in East of England

The artist John Constable, "The Lock" one of the most expensive British paintings, where the price was £ 22.4 million painting at auction house Christie's "London".

Imagine painting dating back to 1824 rural life in Suffolk, eastern England.

The painting "The Lock" is displayed in the Museum "bornmiza" in Madrid. And Baroness Carmen Thyssen says accompanied by bornmiza that it was "very painful" sale of this painting, but had to do this step because of the financial crisis.

Museum conduct resigned Secretary Norman Rosenthal, protesting the sale of the painting, drawing criticism of Baroness to ask one of the most precious exhibit for sale.

The Baroness has got the Miss Spain, fifth wife and widow of businessman Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen Swiss bonmiza.

The painting "The Lock" within art left behind spouse collectibles when spent in 2002.

During the announcement of the sale of a Constable in May last, the Baroness said that it had to because of the current economic crisis.

Francesca von Habsburg has expressed, daughter of Baroness's husband and member of the Board of Directors of the Museum, its refusal to sell the painting.

She told the daily mail: "did not show respect for my parents, the Baroness it places financial needs above everything else."

He was the first owner of the painting "The Lock" James maryson, bought the painting in the Gallery of the Royal Academy in 1824.

And one of the wealthiest merchants maryson became British in the nineteenth century and one of its works of art.

The painting remained in the possession of his predecessors until 1990.

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