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London’s Tate Gallery is “desperately seeking” funding to keep a work by British artist John Constable in the country. Tate spokesman Michael Fraser said Tuesday that a four-month public appeal had left the Tate still $650,000 short of the $4.7 million it needed to purchase “The Opening of Waterloo Bridge.” The painting’s owner had given the museum a two-week extension to buy it, but Fraser said the museum needs “either an extraordinary response from the public, or one or two major donations.” If the appeal fails, the painting is likely to go to a foreign buyer at auction.