John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

carriage] is to take us to East Ham on Thursday." (JCC II, p.
217)
1817 March 23 Farington records: "Constable & Mrs. Constable called. They
had not seen or heard from Dr. Rudd, but Mr. Bicknell
intended to speak to Him respecting them." (Farington XIV,
pp. 4988-89; see also JCC II, p. 217, and JCC I, p. 162)
1817 March Prepares for Royal Academy exhibition. Pictures include
- April Flatford Mill, "the largest canvas (40 by 50 inches) which he
had yet exhibited", Wivenhoe Park, a small portrait of John
Fisher done at Osmington, and A Cottage. (JCC II, p. 218)
1817 April 7 Farington records: "Constable called & desired me to call on
Him to see a Landscape He had painted for the Exhibition.—
He spoke of Dr. Rudd having returned to East Bergham [as in
typescript] in as ill humor as ever; but that He had made his
will on Saturday March 29th. and had made some provision
for Children which Constable might have.—I called on
Constable & saw His Landscape." (Farington XIV, pp. 4997-
98; see also JCC II, p. 218 and JCC I, p. 162)
1817 April 14 Letter from Maria in East Ham to J.C. in East Bergholt: "[The
Russells] said they came principally to see me to tell me the
good news if I had not heard it, that you were immediately to
be elected a Royal Academician, Sir W. Beechey had just told
them, you were a general favorite, & that you would have
plenty of votes." (JCC II, p. 219)
1817 April 15 Letter from J.C. in East Bergholt to Maria in East Ham: "I
hope to be with you tomorrow or certainly next day. I have
been out all day at Nayland." (JCC II, p. 220 and JCC I, p.
163-64)
1817 April 15 Farington records "Taylor I met. . . . While we were talking Mr.
Bicknell, the Solicitor, stopped to speak to Taylor, who said
that I was aquainted with Constable who married Mr.
Bicknell's eldest daughter.—This afforded me an opportunity
to speak of Constable in warm terms of encomium, to which
Bicknell appeared to listen with pleasure. He had heard of
Owen & others having much approved Constable's Landscape
sent to the Exhibition, & He asked whether it was probable
that He wd. be elected a Member of the Academy. I said that