John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

plans to visit East Bergholt in a week or two. (JCC II, pp. 33-
34; see also JCC IV, p. 217)
1803 June 4 Farington records: "Constable called." Discusses Reinagle's
family. (Farington VI, pp. 2046-47)
1803 June 20 Farington records: "Constable called to take leave before
going into Essex.—Constable was acquainted with Mr. Rooke
who lived at Langham Hall near Dedham, but they quitted it,
& now reside in or near London"; etc. (Farington VI, p. 2060;
see also JCC I, p. 18)
1803 June In Suffolk "till the autumn at least." (JCC I, p. 18; see also
post-20 JCC II, p. 35)
1803 Oct 5 Drawing done at Ipswich. (JCC I, p. 18)
1803 Oct 6 Drawing done at Ipswich. (JCC I, p. 18)
1804 Feb 9 Farington records: "Constable called—does not think of
Exhibiting, conceiving that nothing is gained by putting
pictures in competition with works which are extravagant in
colour & bad taste wanting truth.—I told him much wd. be
gained by it as He wd. in an Exhibition see His own works with
'A fresh eye' and better judge of their real quality."
(Farington VI, p. 3328)
1804 Feb 10 Farington records: "Constable called.—Had been to Mr. Wests
and seen the Landscape by Rubens belonging to Sir G
Beaumont,—which He thought the finest of the Master that
He had seen.—He had also seen the picture painted in
imitation of it by Ward which Mr. West told him was the best
picture of the kind executed since the days of Rubens.—
Constable thought such praise extravagant & sd. the picture
shewed How inferior a production made up upon a picture is
to one that is founded on original observation of nature."
(Farington VI, p. 2239)
1804 June 1 Farington records: "Constable called. He has of late been
much employed painting portraits large as the life for which
He has with a hand 3 guineas, —without 2 guineas.—This low
price affords the farmers &c to indulge their wishes and to
have their Children and relatives painted.—Constable has a