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John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

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1819 June 4 Note from Maria in Roehampton to J.C. in London. (JCC II, p.<br />

249)<br />

1819 June 6 Letter from Bishop Fisher in London to J.C. in London: "my<br />

daughter is very anxious to finish her Picture, before we go—<br />

she hopes it may not be inconvenient to you to come here<br />

tomorrow soon after 12 o'clock." (JCC VI, p. 44)<br />

1819 June 16 Farington records: "<strong>Constable</strong> and Lane [called] at my<br />

breakfast time: the former for a ticket to the British<br />

Institution on Monday evening last, the latter to request me<br />

to renew my sittings for my portrait.—I spoke to <strong>Constable</strong><br />

abt. his picture now in the Exhibition and recommended to<br />

him to make his pencil execution more careful." (Farington<br />

XV, pp. 5378-79; see also JCC II, p. 250)<br />

1819 June 28 Note from Farington in London to J.C. in London. (JC: FDC, p.<br />

213)<br />

1819 June 29 Farington records: "<strong>Constable</strong> called to thank me for a ticket<br />

to the British Institution. He brought a small landscape he had<br />

painted to shew me that he had profited by my remarks upon<br />

the execution of his pictures being too careless. . . <strong>Constable</strong><br />

called, went to the last evening meeting of the British<br />

Institution last night." (Farington XV, p. 5382; see also JCC II,<br />

p. 250 and JC: FDC, p. 213)<br />

1819 July 2 Letter from <strong>John</strong> Fisher in Salisbury to J.C. in London: "Will<br />

you have the goodness to tell me what price you put on your<br />

great picture now in the exhibition [The White Horse]. . . . Did<br />

you not express a wish to have it on your easil again to<br />

subdue a few lights and cool your trees. . . . Do not forget<br />

my commission respecting your Claude. Would you part with<br />

your copy of your Reysdale?" (JCC VI, p. 44; see also JCC II,<br />

p. 250)<br />

1819 July 17 Letter from J.C. in London to <strong>John</strong> Fisher in Salisbury, fixing<br />

the price of The White Horse at one hundred guineas,<br />

exclusive of the frame, and mentioning "I have made a sketch<br />

of my scene on the Thames, which is very promising. . . . I<br />

have got over my difficulties with my Norman warrior." (JCC<br />

VI, p. 45; see also JCC II, pp. 250-51 and JCC IV, p. 64)

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