John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1795 summer Possibly first meets Sir George Beaumont at Dedham.
According to an anonymous chronicler: "shortly after this [a
sketching tour of Norfolk] he became acquainted with Sir G.
Beaumont, Bart: through his mother who knew Lady
Beaumont, Sir G.'s mother who lived at Dedham. it was at
her house that he first saw the Clauds which are now in the
National Gallery." (JC: FDC, p. 142)
1795 Sepia copy after Claude. (JCC II, p. 2)
1795 First meets Sir George Beaumont at Dedham. Shows
or shortly after Beaumont his "Large copies in pen and ink from Dorigny's
engravings from the Raphael Cartoons, Ananias and Elymas,"
just completed. In return Beaumont shows J.C. his paintings
by Claude, including the Annunciation (Landscape with Hagar
and the Angel). Exact date not known, but no earlier than
1795. (JCC II, p. 1-2)
1796 summer Stays with Uncle Thomas Allen at Edmonton. (JC: FDC,
p.196)
1796 Aug 11 Letter from J.C. at Edmonton to father at East Bergholt.
(JCC I, p. 12; see also JCC II , p. 4, and JC: FDC, p. 197,199)
1796 Aug First comes to know John Thomas Smith, probably in August
on a visit to his uncle, Thomas Allen, in Edmonton. (JCC II, pp.
3-4)
1796 Aug-Sept Possibly meets again with Sir George Beaumont in Dedham.
(JC: FDC, p. 143)
1796 Sept 30 John Cranch gives J.C. a reading list. (JC: FDC, p. 27)
1796 Oct 27 Letter from J.C. to J.T. Smith, offering to send his
sketchbook of picturesque cottages and to make more
detailed drawings as basis for etchings in Smith's Remarks on
Rural Scenery. States that he had brought back a number of
books on art from Edmonton and was particularly enjoying
"Leonardo and Count Algarotti."(JCC II, pp. 4-5; see also JC:
FDC, p. 199)