John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

done to Lane upon the propriety of the Members considering
those who were of long standing in the Art.
"Royal Academy General meeting I went to—Members
present Fuseli in the Chair. Farington—Smirke—Stothard—
Shee—Soane—Rossi—Philips—Calcott—Westmacott—Bone—
Bigg—Mulready—Chalon. Howard, Secretary.
"One Associate was elected. There were 38 Candidates."
J.C. is one of the candidates. Farington includes the number
of votes won by each candidate: J.C. receives six votes to
win the first ballot, and eight to win the second. (Farington
XV, pp. 5422-23; see also JCC II, p. 258)
1819 Nov 1 Election of Associates to the Royal Academy; J.C. elected an
A.R.A. "There was a small attendance that evening, when only
one place was to go to a painter, the other being reserved for
an engraver. Constable's chief rival was his American friend
C.R. Leslie, and in the preliminary voting the contest was
close, Leslie receiving five votes to Constable's six. In the
final ballot, however, Constable drew ahead and was elected
an Associate of the Royal Academy by eight votes to Leslie's
five." (JCC II, p. 257; see also JCC VI, p. 48, JCC I, p. 188, JC:
FDC, p. 322, where the date is given incorrectly as Nov 2,
and JCC IV, p. 258)
1819 Nov 2 Farington records: "Constable called to know the result of the
Election & I informed him that he had been succesful which
he heard with great satisfaction. He brought two pictures,
studies on Hampstead Heath, which he had painted."
(Farington XV, p. 5423; see also JCC II, p. 258 and JCC VI,
pp. 50, 304)
1819 Nov 2 Letter from J.C. in London to brother Abram in East Bergholt:
"I have just time to say that I had a save journey here. . . I
found things very comfortable at Hampstead & they go to
putney tomorrow all well. . . I shall return there to fix
tomorrow and shall set in tomorrow I hope for a good
[?weeks] work to keep up as much as pofsible my running
acct with You that it may wear a good face—. . . . I was last
night by a large majority elected an Asociate of the Royal
Academy." (JC: FDC, pp. 73-74 and JCC I, pp. 188-89)
1819 Nov 4 Letter from John Fisher in Salisbury to J.C. in London. (JCC
VI, p. 49)