John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1812 April 12 Letter from mother in East Bergholt to J.C. in London: "I hear
the Exhibition opens on the 4th of May." (JCC I, p. 77; see
also JC: FDC, p. 112)
1812 April 14 Letter from Maria in Spring Grove to J.C. in London, asking to
hear from him. (JCC II, p. 62)
1812 April Shortly before 16 April, J.C. in London writes long letter to
pre-16 mother in East Bergholt. (JCC II, p. 64)
1812 April 16 Letter from J.C. in London to Maria in Spring Grove: "I have
dispatched my pictures to Somerset House. . . . I have sent
four pictures in all, the View of Salisbury, Flatford Mill, and
two smaller ones." Flatford Mill is probably Flatford Mill from
the Lock. The "two smaller ones" are Landscape: Evening and
Landscape: A recent shower. J.C. mentions other recent
work: "I am now engaged with portraits—Mr. Watts sat to me
this morning, and he seems pleased. . . . I am on high terms
with Mrs. R.—I made two drawings (on her writing case) for
her. . . . I am copying a picture for Lady Heathcote (her own
portrait as Hebe). She will not sit to me though she wants
many alterations from the original—but I can have prints,
drawings & miniatures, locks of hair, &c, &c without end." J.C.
hopes to see his mother at East Ham at his sister Martha
Whalley's home. (JCC II, pp. 63-64; see also JCC IV, p. 54)
1812 April 22 Two drawings of sister Mary at Charlotte Street. (JCC I, p.
79)
1812 April 24 Letter from J.C. in London to Maria in Spring Grove: "Mr.
West. . . . told me he had been much gratified with a picture
(the Mill, &c) which passed the Council at the Academy. . . .
Callcott . . . told me that my pictures . . . looked very well,
but rather dark and heavy." (JCC II, p. 65; see also JC: FDC,
p. 40)
1812 April Portrait of uncle David Pike Watts. (JCC IV, p. 33; see also
JCC IV, p. 11)
1812 April Meets with Henry Munro in London. (JCC IV, p. 237)