John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1824 July 24 Oil-sketch of the beach at Brighton, dated 24th July. (JCC II,
p. 365)
1824 July Oil-sketch of a similar view to Shoreham Bay of 20 July,
dated July 1824. (JCC II, p. 365)
1824 July-Oct Oil-sketches of sunset or moonlight effects. Sketch-book,
"with some 30 drawings," including "drawings of hog-boats
and luggers grounded on the beach round a capstan not far
from his house." (JCC II, p. 365)
1824 summer Works on three small pictures for Schroth, two of Hampstead
Heath, in Brighton. (JCC IV, p. 211, 96)
1824 Meets Henry Phillips at Brighton. (JCC V, p. 79; see also JC:
summer-fall FDC, pp. 122-23)
1824 According to Leslie, J.C. writes on back of his 1824 Brighton
summer-fall oil-sketches: "The neighborhood of Brighton consists of
London cowfields and hideous masses of unfledged earth
called country." (JCC VI, p. 172)
1824 Meets George Young at Brighton. (JCC V, p. 128; see also
summer-fall JCC II, p. 369 and JC: FDC, p. 130)
1824 early Aug "On hearing from Constable that the paintings would not be
ready by the end of [July Schroth] wrote back to say that
Constable was not to give himself any more anxiety to finish
them in a hurry." (JCC II, p. 365)
1824 Aug 2 Letter from Abram at Flatford Mill to J.C. in London: "real
pleasure to find you so fully employ'd & your pictures so
sought after. . . the French man [Claude Schroth] seems
determined to have them." J.C. receives letter 8th August.
(JCC I, pp. 215-17; see also JCC IV, p. 188 and JCC IV, p. 68,
where letter is incorrectly said to be an entry by J.C. in his
journal)
1824 Aug 3 Oil-sketch of a windmill on top of the downs at Brighton,
dated 3rd August. (JCC II, p. 366)
1824 Aug 4 Letter from Claude Schroth in Paris to J.C. in Brighton. (JCC
IV, p. 188)