John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1817 A plan prepared in 1817 to show the result of the award [of
partition of East Bergholt common land]. (JCC I, p. 131)
1818 Sends two pictures to British Institution, "both of which had
beg. of year presumably appeared in last year's Academy exhibition," one
called Scene on the banks of a river, later known asFlatford
Mill, the other A Cottage in a Cornfield. (JCC II, p. 233)
1818 Jan 31 Farington records: "Constable I called on and saw Him and His
wife & sat with them sometime. He spoke of Bigg as being in
a bad state of Health & much altered. I saw several of His
painted sketches and drawings done last Summer, but He had
not any principal work in hand." (Farington XV, pp. 5147-48;
see also JCC II, p. 233 and JCC IV, p. 245)
1818 Feb 17 Farington records: "Constable called. . . . Mrs. Russell,
daughtr. to the late David Pike Watts, has ordered a
Monument to His Memory to be executed by Chantrey: The
Price fixed is £5000." (Farington XV, pp. 5159-60; see also
JCC II, p. 233 and JC: FDC, p. 313)
1818 Feb 19 Letter from Henry Greswolde Lewis at Malvern Hall to J.C. in
London suggesting J.C. and Maria spend a month in summer
or autumn with him and J.C. at the same time assist in the
decoration of the house by painting a panel with the figure of
a Norman ancestor. Received on Feb 21. (JCC IV, p. 57; see
also JCC II, p. 233 and JC: FDC, p. 135)
1818 March 18 Farington records: "I had company at dinner." Diagram of
seating arrangement shows Farington at the head of the
table with, clockwise from his left, Constable, Newton, Wm.
Jas. Farington, S. Lane, and Thomson. Discusses various
artists. (Farington XV, pp. 5174-75; see also JCC IV 1966, p.
246 and JCC II, p. 234, where date is given incorrectly as
March 8)
1818 March 25 Letter from Allen Woodburn in London to J.C. in London.
(JCC IV, p. 165)
1818 March 26 Letter from Mr. Venables in London to J.C. in London. (JCC
IV, p. 166)