John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

Exhibition. I made some remarks for a few alterations."
(Farington XIII, pp. 4481-82)
1814 April 9 Letter from Maria in London to J.C. in London, informing J.C.
she is leaving for a week. (JCC II, p. 121)
1814 April 12 Letter from J.C. in London to uncle David Pike Watts in
London: "I have not yet, in a single instance, realised my
ideas of art." (JCC IV, p. 38)
1814 April 12 Letter from uncle David Pike Watts in London to J.C. in
London: "The Picture [Boat Landscape] must go in; wet,
smear'd, confused, unfinished." (JCC IV, pp. 37-38)
1814 April 13 Farington records: "Constable called to inform me that at the
close of the British Institution Exhibition to make room for
the works of Wilson,—Hogarth, & Gainsborough, He not
having sold His picture of the Lock Scene (Landscape) was
applied to by Charpenter, the Bookseller in Bond St. who sd.
He cd. not afford to pay the money He wd. willingly do, but
He wd. give Him 20 guineas in money and Books to a certain
amount beyond that sum. Constable accepted the offer, & I
told Him I thought he did well." (Farington XIII, pp. 4487-88;
see also JCC IV, p. 135)
1814 April 15 Farington records: "Constable called"; etc. (Farington XIII, p.
4489)
1814 April 23 Farington records: "Constable called. He had been to the
Academy & seen Strowger, who told him that there had been
a desire to place his pictures advantageously as they had
been removed, or others had been removed, when it was
seen that pictures near them injured their effect.—He saw
Thomson at the Academy who was very cordial with Him &
spoke particularly of the merits of His small picture, saying
also that his large picture had good parts in it." (Farington
XIII, p. 4495; see also JCC II, p. 29)
1814 April To East Bergholt. (JCC I, p. 103; see also JCC II, p. 121)
ca. 24
1814 April 29 Visits Helmingham Hall. (JCC I, p. 103)