John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1819 July 19 Birth of Maria Louisa to J.C. and Maria. (JCC II, p. 250)
1819 July 19 Letter from John Fisher in Salisbury to J.C. in London, asking
J.C. to visit him and expressing his wish to buy A Scene on
the River Stour, later known as The White Horse. Fisher adds:
"Would you copy me the Lord Radnors? instead?" (JCC VI, p.
46; see also JCC II, p. 250)
1819 July 22 Dr. Rhudde's will proved, bringing J.C. and Maria £120 a year.
(JCC II, p. 247)
1819 July 23 Farington records: "Constable called and informed me of his
wife having been delivered of a daughter. He also desired my
opinion whether he shd. accede to a proposal of the Trustees
of Dr. Rudd for him to settle Dr. Rudd's legacy to Mrs.
Constable viz. abt. £120 per annm. on Her & her children. I
recommended him to wait for the recovery of his wife and
then to consult her upon it. He sd. she had expressed a
dislike to settling anything upon Children as it went to render
them independent of their parents." (Farington XV, pp. 5391-
92; see also JCC II, pp. 250-51)
1819 July 29 Farington records: "Constable called, & informed me that
under Mr. Bicknell's direction the Executors of Dr. Rudd had
prepared a settlement of the money left by Dr. Rudd to Mrs.
Constable on her and her Children but Constable refused to
sanction it & required them to pay the amount to him for his
and Mrs. Constable's farther consideration." (Farington XV, p.
5393; see also JCC II, p. 251, where the date is given as the
28th.)
1819 Letter, undated, from Henry Greswolde Lewis at Radford in
prob. summer Warwickshire to J.C. in London. (JCC IV, p. 63)
1819 J.C. rents cottage for his family at Hampstead. (JCC I,
late summer p. 182)
1819 Aug 11 Letter from John Fisher in Salisbury to J.C. in London: "I
ordered a frame at Tijous for my little Sarum view." (JCC VI,
pp. 46-47)
1819 Aug 11 Farington records: "Constable called, and brought a painted
sketch of his view of Waterloo bridge &c and the river as it