John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

with your picture, in color, brightness, or richness, of the
chiaroscuro—nor in finish and delicacy of execution." (JCC IV,
p. 122)
1835 Dec 11 Letter from daughter Emily in Hampstead to J.C. in London.
(JCC V, p. 195)
1835 Dec 15 Brother Abram calls in Charlotte Street. (JCC I, p. 295)
1835 Dec 16 Letter from J.C. in London to George Constable in Arundel:
"John and I have engaged to eat our dinner on X'mas day at
Bergholt in Suffolk with my own family. We shall leave town
on the 24 & stay a week. . . . Can you bring with you the little
Gainsborough, & the sketch I made of your mill—John wants
me to make a picture of it. . . . I have got Mr Vernon's large
picture into as good a state as I am able. It goes this week. . .
. I had a nice excursion to Worcester, and got on quite well
with my sermons." (JCC V, pp. 28-29; see also JC: FDC, p.
139 and JCD, pp. 8, 32)
1835 Dec 16 Letter from J.C. in London to David Lucas in London,
including a statement of sums due to Lucas: "Abram
Constable was here yesterday. John and me dine in Flatford
on Xmas day." (JCC IV, pp. 426-27, 451; see also p. 123)
1835 Dec 22 Letter, year not given, but probably 1835, from W. George
Jennings in London to J.C. in London: "I now return your
picture . . . that it may be replaced in your Gallery before you
leave town. . . . Mr Watton told me he had seen your
magnificent work in a handsome frame, therefore I conclude
with pleasure, that all arrangements are made to your
satisfaction. . . . I beg to wish you . . . safe journey & return,
with much enjoyment in Suffolk—I should like to see the
hundreds yards of the Valley Farm!" (JCC V, p. 48; on p. 47
the date is given as 1836, which is clearly a typo)
1835 Dec 25 To Flatford Mill with son John Charles to spend Christmas.
(JCC III, p. 133; see also JCC I, p. 295 and JCC V, p. 195)
1835 Dec Has "recently finished a large watercolour drawing of what
remains" of Stonehenge for next Royal Academy exhibition.
(JCC V, p. 29)