John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1834 Dec 13 At Ham. (JCC IV, p. 79)
1834 Dec 15 Letter from J.C. in London to Leslie in London: "I was all day
on Saturday at Ham. . . . I shall be all this day with Wilkie. . . .
Now Lucas, . . . allows himself (I fear with reason) to engrave
balderdash for money—in my style. . . . " (JCC III, pp. 121-22;
see also JCC V, p. 101 and JCC IV, p. 414)
1834 Dec 15 All day with Wilkie, probably serving as the model for the
physician Garcia Fernandez in the picture Christopher
Columbus explaining the project of the New World, in the
Convent of La Rabida. (JCC IV, p. 229; see also JC: FDC, p.
317)
1834 Dec 15 Letter from David Lucas in London to J.C. in London. (JCC IV,
pp. 414-15)
1834 Dec 16 Letter from J.C. in London to David Lucas in London: "[we
have] a unison of feeling in art. . . . I am going to Leslie to
dinner. . . . My Glebe Farm is going away—sold to Mr.
Constable of Arundel—the picture is a favorite, but it chose
its possessor." (JCC IV, p. 416; see also JCC V, p. 19)
1834 Dec 16 Dines with Leslie in London. (JCC III, p. 122; see also JC: FDC,
p. 240 and JCC IV, p. 416)
1834 Dec 17 Letter from J.C. to William Purton: "I seem foolishly bent on a
large canvas." (JCC V, p. 43)
1834 Dec 17 Letter from David Lucas in London to J.C. in London. (JCC IV,
p. 416)
1834 Dec 18 Letter from J.C. in London to Wilkie in London: "Wednesday
next . . . you will meet Mr. Bannister." (JC: FDC, p. 317)
1834 Dec 20 Letter from J.C. in London to David Lucas in London: "I am
sorry you could not have ordered the set of prints for me
which I was going to send my brother. . . tell me the size you
thought the 'Watermill' will be. I should like to see you with a
companion to it—and that should be 'Old Billy Lott's'. . . .
Wilkie dines with me on Wednesday." (JCC IV, p. 418; see
also JCC I, p. 287)