John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1806 Oct 13 Two drawings of the view down the valley from near
Rosthwaite, one made in the afternoon, the other in the
evening. (JCC V, p. 6)
1806 Oct 13 Leaves Borrowdale, returning "along the way he had come to
the side of Windermere." (JCC V, p. 6)
1806 Oct 17 Jessy Harden records J.C.'s return to Brathay on 15 October:
"Wednesday. Mr. Constable returned & being a wet morning
he occupied himself in beginning a portrait of John which I
hope will prove like." (JCC V, p. 6)
1806 Oct 19 Drawing in pencil and grey wash of the Langdales, dated 19th
October. (JCC V, p. 6)
1806 Dec Probably in 1806 while in the Lake district, J.C. paints
portrait of Charles Lloyd's brother James, signed John
Constable f., Decr. 1806, according to tradition painted at
Bingley House, Birmingham, though there is no record of a
visit this year by J.C. (JCC V, p. 74)
1806 Pencil drawing of Dr. Wiliam Crotch pasted on a fly-leaf of Dr.
Crotch's Memoirs, inscribed: "W Crotch playing Mozart--drawn
by John Constable RA MGS about 1806." (JC: FDC, p. 153)
1806 Letter from uncle David Pike Watts in London to J.C. in
London: "It [the Brantham altarpiece] may be a more finished
work of Art, but . . . the Effect is gone." (JCC IV, p. 13)
1807 March 12 Note from Bishop Fisher to J.C., inviting him to dinner. (JC:
FDC, p. 116)
1807 March 12 Farington records: "Constable called to desire me to call on
Him to see a picture of his painting." (Farington VIII, p. 2986)
1807 March 13 Farington records: "Constable I called on to see his Kit Kat
view of Keswick Lake.—He told me He had seen Calcott's
large picture 'Return from the Market.' He said it was a fine
picture, but treated in a pedantick manner, every part
seeming to wish to shew itself; that is had not an air of
nature; that the trees appeared crumbly—as if they might be
rubbed in the hand like bread; not loose & waving, but as if
the parts if bent would break; the whole not lucid like