John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

(JCC VI 1968, pp. 86-89; see also JCC II, pp. 274-75, JCC I,
p. 203 and JCC IV pp. 136, 178, 243, 246)
1822 April 15 Letter from sister Ann at East Bergholt to J.C. in London.
(JCC I, p. 203)
1822 April 16 Letter from John Fisher in Osmington to J.C. in London. (JCC
VI, p. 89)
1822 April 17 Letter from J.C. in London to John Fisher in Osmington: "I am
now busy on some minor works which bring things soon
about again. . . . I must work hard this summer. . . . I am
about Farrington's house . . . but I am loth to leave a place
where I have had so much happiness . . . and where I painted
my four landscapes." (JCC VI, pp. 90-91; see also JCC II, p.
275, JC: FDC, pp. 117, 214 and JCC IV, p. 179, 261)
1822 April 23 Inventory of remaining contents in Farington's house,
including an entry in J.C.'s hand in pencil on the inside of the
back cover, and initialed by him. (JC: FDC, p. 215)
1822 April Extract of letter, accompanying sketch of 1 April, probably
written later in April when sketch is sent to John Fisher: "The
composition is almost totally changed from what you saw. I
have taken away the sail, and added another barge in the
middle of the picture, with a principal figure, altered the
group of trees, and made the bridge entire. The picture has
now a rich centre, and the right-hand side becomes only an
accessory." (JCC VI, p. 89)
1822 April J.C. shows the View on the Stour, near Dedham, showing the
foot-bridge at Flatford, at the Royal Academy. (JCC I, p.
203; see also JCC II, p. 93)
1822 April Letter from J.C. in London to John Fisher in Osmington:
"[Tinney] has desired me to paint as a companion to his
landscape, another picture—at my leisure—& for 100 Gns.
[with the] stipulation that it must be exhibited. . . . It will
enable me to do another large work as a certainty. . . . I am
going to see the private view of the water colors by Jackson.
. . . I enclose you the little sketch that made part of a former
letter I mentioned to you—but which I did not send." (JCC VI,