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John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

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enefitted by the instructions of Mr. Sturt of Colchester."<br />

(Farington IV, p. 1216)<br />

1799 May 17 Farington records: "Reinagle Junr. and <strong>Constable</strong> called."<br />

(Farington IV, p. 1223; see also JC: FDC, p. 269 and JCC IV,<br />

p. 215, where the date is given incorrectly as May 5)<br />

1799 May 25 Farington records: "<strong>Constable</strong> called. Has just finished a<br />

Kitcat picture, painted by memory as an experiment, from Sir<br />

George Beaumont's picture by Wilson, of Mecenas's Villa &c."<br />

Perhaps mistakenly, Leslie records a similar occurrence in<br />

1811. (Farington IV, p. 1228; see also JC: FDC, p. 143)<br />

1799 Aug 18 Letter from J.C. in Ipswich, visiting Mrs. Cobbold, to J.T.<br />

Smith: "I have been working day and night . . . have copied<br />

some drawings." (JCC II, pp. 16-17)<br />

1799 June 29 Farington records: "<strong>Constable</strong> I called on to see his copy of<br />

Wynants." (Farington IV, p. 1245)<br />

1799 July 2 Farington records: "<strong>Constable</strong> called." (Farington IV, p. 1248)<br />

1799 Dec 4 Farington records: "Copy of the Lists of Students &<br />

Probationers [of the Royal Academy] with the determination<br />

of the Committee on seeing their drawings." J.C. is on the<br />

list of "Probationers qualified to be Students." (Farington IV,<br />

pp. 1316-17)<br />

1799 Dec 19 Farington records: "<strong>Constable</strong> called. Resides with young<br />

Reinagle." (Farington IV, p. 1327 and JCC IV, p. 215; see also<br />

JC: FDC, pp. 144, 270)<br />

1799 Dec Ann Taylor, then seventeen, later Mrs. Gilbert, first<br />

introduced to <strong>Constable</strong> family, including J.C. (JCC II, p. 17)<br />

1799 Ramsay Richard Reinagle visits J.C. in East Bergholt. (JCC II, p.<br />

19)<br />

1800 Jan 29 Farington records: "<strong>Constable</strong> called, I lent him Wilsons<br />

Adrian's Villa to copy." J.C. also copies Wilson's The Ruins of<br />

Maecenas's Villa. (Farington IV, p. 1365 and JCC II, p. 23; see<br />

also JC: FDC, p. 270)

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