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John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

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1821 July 14 Oil-sketch made at Hampstead. (JCC II, p. 269)<br />

1821 July post-2 Applies for, and is given, the commission for the Manningtree<br />

altarpiece. (JCC I, p. 202 and JCC II, p. 269)<br />

1821 July 17 Letter from Martin L. Colnaghi in London to J.C. in London:<br />

"do me the favor to paint a companion to my Picture by<br />

Turner." (JCC IV, p. 153)<br />

1821 July 18 Oil-sketch made at Hampstead. (JCC II, p. 269)<br />

1821 July 19 Oil-sketch at Hampstead, inscribed Evening of Coronation, the<br />

evening of 19 July. (JCC VI, p. 69 and JCC II, p. 269)<br />

1821 July 19 Letter from <strong>John</strong> Fisher in Salisbury to J.C. in Hampstead:<br />

"How does the hay wain look now that it has got into your<br />

room again?" (JCC IV, pp. 69-70)<br />

1821 July 26 Farington records: "I had company at dinner." Diagram of<br />

seating arrangements shows Farington at the head of table,<br />

with, clockwise to his left, Howard, Christmas, Christmas<br />

Junr., <strong>Constable</strong>, S. Lane, Hilton, and Sir T. Lawrence.<br />

(Farington XVI, pp. 5706-07; see also JCC II, p. 270)<br />

1821 July J.C. "able to spend more time with his family at Hampstead."<br />

(JCC I, p. 200)<br />

1821 "A large number of cloud paintings done at Hampstead. . . ,<br />

late summer inscribed with careful notes of the time and the direction of<br />

the wind." (JCC VI, p. 75)<br />

1821 Aug 3 Leaves London for Hampstead. (JCC II, p. 270)<br />

1821 Aug Borrows two drawings by the younger Cozens from<br />

before 4 Woodburn. (JCC IV, p. 166)<br />

1821 Aug 4 Letter from J.C. in Hampstead to <strong>John</strong> Fisher in Salisbury: "I<br />

have got a room at the glaziers down town as a workshop<br />

where is my large picture—and at this little place I have<br />

[sundry] small works going on. . . . I have done a good deal of<br />

work here. . . . My large picture looks well in [my new drawing<br />

rooms in Keppel Street] but I shall do more to it. . . . Sir<br />

George Beaumont. . . has presented me with a beautifull little<br />

landscape, a mill. . . It is a Rembrant. . . . There is some hope

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