John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1811 March 16 Letter from mother in East Bergholt to J.C. in London. (JCC
IV, p. 51; see also JCC II, p. 48)
1811 March 19 Farington records: "I told Him [Robert Smirke] Constable was
not in town, therefore I could make no application to Mr.
Watts through Him." (Farington XI pp. 3896-97; see also
JCC IV, p. 26)
1811 March 27 Farington records: "Constable called, being returned from the
Country whither He had gone to get the better of a Cold
which He caught some weeks since & such was the
susceptibility of His lungs, so subject to inflammation, that
He had to apprehend much danger if He remained in London
while the Cold was upon Him. He sd. His Father, a remarkably
stout & Healthy man, now 70 years of age, never could live in
London, not for a day witht. risk. In coming from Essex, near
Dedham, He could perceive a difference in the air when He
came to Ilford, 7 miles from London & it became more &
more oppressive as He advanced towards the Metropolis";
etc. (Farington XI, p. 3900-01; see also JCC I, pp. 6, 60.)
1811 March Meets with Henry Monro in London. (JCC IV, p. 237)
1811 April 2 Farington records: "Bigg called to desire me to look at His
Exhibition picture.
"Constable called for the same purpose"; etc. (Farington
XI, p. 3904; see also JCC IV, p. 26)
1811 April 5 Farington records: "Constable I called on & saw His picture 'A
view near Langham in Essex'." (Farington XI, p. 3906)
1811 April 15 Letter from mother in East Bergholt to J.C. in London: "I am
now indulging the hope, not only of seeing you, but also, the
Exhibition, if it opens as usual on the first day of May." (JCC I,
pp. 60-61)
1811 April 20 Letter from mother in East Ham to J.C. in London, hoping to
see him soon. (JCC I, p. 61)
1811 April 23 Farington records: "Constable called, in much uneasiness of
mind, having heard that His picture—a landscape 'A view near
Dedham, Essex', was hung very low in the Anti-room of the
Royal Academy. He apprehended that it was a proof that He