John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1823 Oct 2 Letter from John Fisher in Salisbury to J.C. in London: "[The
Bishop] wants you to alter the trees in my large landscape
because they stick to the sky.—He hopes that you put your
marriage picture of Salisbury into a little sunshine." (JCC VI,
pp. 134-36; see also JCC IV, p. 219)
1823 Oct 4 Oil-sketch at Hampstead, dated 4th October. (JCC II, p. 289)
1823 Oct 10 Letter from Bishop Fisher in Salisbury to J.C. in London:
"Elizabeth . . . will be in my house in Seymour Street before
the end of this month. Is her Picture finished?" (JCC VI, p.
137)
1823 Oct 10 Letter from Lady Beaumont at Coleorton Hall to J.C. in
London. (JC: FDC, p. 146)
1823 Oct 16 Letter from John Fisher in Salisbury to J.C. in London: "Much
impatience on the part of the Bishop to know when you come
to paint Tinney's portrait. . . . The Bishop has been fishing up
some old drawings of Bucklers against your arrival in
Salisbury. With the intent I guess that you should copy &
improve them." (JCC VI, pp. 137-38)
1823 Oct 19 Letter from J.C. in Hampstead to John Fisher in Salisbury: "I
hung up my 'bridal picture' with my own hads yesterday in
Seymour Street. . . . It will be better liked than the large one,
because it is not 'too good'. At the time you recieve this
letter I shall be . . . with Sir George Beaumont at Colorton
Hall, Leicesterchire. . . . I look to this visit with pleasure and
improvement. All his beautiful pictures are there, and if I can
find time to copy the little Grove, by Claude Lorraine . . . it
will much help me." (JCC VI, p. 139 and JCC II, p. 289; see
also JC: FDC, p. 146)
1823 Oct 20 J.C. travels to Leicestershire to Coleorton Hall, home of Sir
prob. George Beaumont. (JCC II, p. 290 and JC: FDC, p. 146; see
also JCC I, p. 204, and JC: FDC, p. 244)
1823 Oct 21 Letter, dated by Leslie 24th October, but postmarked
London 22nd October, from J.C. in Leicestershire to Maria in
Hampstead: "Only think that I am now writing in a room full of
Claudes (not Glovers)—real Claudes, and Wilsons & Poussins