John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

late summer Beaumont, "of the scene provided by the cleft in the hillside
not far from the church, from which the Stour estuary can be
seen in the far distance." (JCC II, p. 447)
1802 Sept 9 J.C. "admitted [to property] . . . at a special court baron on 9
September 1802." Had purchased a small property opposite
family house at East Bergholt for use as studio. (JCC I, p. 14)
1802 Sept Oil-study, Dedham Vale, dated September, 1802 at the back.
(JCC II, p. 33)
1802 Oct 3 Drawing of a windmill in the Brantham marshes, dated 3rd
October 1802. (JCC II, p. 33)
1802 Nov 27 Letter from Dr. Fisher in London to J.C., inviting J.C. to
dinner. (JCC VI, p. 7; see also JC: FDC, p. 116)
1802 "About this time," J.C. found Sam Strowger, a Suffolk friend,
now head porter at the R.A. and, says Leslie, "the most
symmetrical of models in the Life School." (JCC II, p. 28)
1802 Attends anatomy lectures of Joshua Brookes, F.R.S. Leslie
says, "Many accurate and beautiful colored drawings, of a
large size, done by Constable at this time, from dissections,
bear evidence of the interest with which he pursued the
study of Anatomy." (JCC II, p. 27)
1802 Four oil studies. (JC: FDC, p. 144)
1803 March 23 Farington records: "Constable called and brought several
small studies which He painted from nature in the
neighberoud of Dedham." (Farington V, p. 1998)
1803 March 24 Farington records: "Constable called and took away his
Sketches." (Farington V, p. 1999)
1803 April 1 Farington records: "Constable called,—I lent him 'Mecenas's
villa'." (Farington VI, p. 2003)
1803 early April Makes a voyage by sea with Capt. Torin on his last voyage
down the Thames. Probably boards at Gravesend in about
the second week of April, coming ashore at Deal in the first
week of May, producing, says Leslie, "about one hundred and