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The painting, also the same size, was previously identified as Constable's schoolmaster from Dedham, Dr Thomas Lechmere Grimwood, based on its description in a 1926 Sotheby's sale catalogue as a 'Portrait of the artist's schoolmaster'.
BBC: Artist captured parents on canvas
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But it is Fowler, that supposedly starchy old schoolmaster, who is the most striking opponent of rigidity.
NEWYORKER: The English Wars
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And more than all, if just previous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest boys stand in awe of you.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Moby-Dick'