John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

am going to morrow to Brighton to make a merry X'mas with
my children." (JC: FDC, pp. 77-78)
1825 Dec ca. 24 Probably on 24 December, J.C. leaves London for Brighton,
where he stays until Jan 12. (JCC II, pp. 422-23; see also JC:
FDC, p. 78, JCC IV, pp. 206, 272 and JCC VI, p. 211)
1825 Dec 30 Letter from Mancel in Calais to J.C. (at this time in Brighton)
addressed to London. (JCC IV, p. 272)
1825 Two portraits, of Richard Neave and Sheffield Neave, signed
and dated. (JC: FDC, p. 161)
1826 early Henry Phillips visits J.C. in London, finds him engaged on The
in year Cornfield. (JCC V, p. 80)
1826 early Letter from Samuel Reynolds, Sr., in London to J.C. in
in year London. (JCC IV, p. 267)
1826 early Letter from J.C. in London to William Carpenter in London: "I .
. . take the opportunity of sending you the picture of a mill. .
. . The spot is in Fisher's parish Gillingham, Dorset, and on the
Stour, near its source—Sir Richard Hoar's being in the hills to
the left—Mere church in the valley. . . . I have by no means
done my last to it." (JCC IV, pp. 137-38)
1826 Jan 1 Oil-sketch of the sea at Brighton, inscribed by J.C. on the
back: 'From 12 till 2 p.m. Fresh breeze from S.S.W.' (JCC II, p.
423)
1826 Jan 4 Letter from Auguste Hervieu in London to J.C. (in Brighton)
addressed to London: "the Society at Lille has granted you a
Medal in gold." (JCC IV, p. 273)
1826 Jan 12 Returns from Brighton to London, to find that his landscapes
at Lille has won him a gold medal. (JCC II, p. 423; see also
JCC IV, p. 272)
1826 Jan 14 Letter from J.C. in London to John Fisher: "All my family are
at Brighton and I left them well on Thursday. I staid a
fortnight with them & did there one of my best pictures—the
subject was the Mill (Perne's) at Gillingham—it is about 2
feet, and is so very rich & pleasing . . . Mere church is in the