John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1814 Oct 9 Letter from J.C. in East Bergholt to John Fisher in Salisbury,
agreeing to paint the Gen. Fisher's portrait. (JCC VI, pp. 25-
26)
1814 Oct 11 Letter from John Fisher in Salisbury to J.C. in East Bergholt: "I
myself shall not be in London till Decr. 10 when we will set to
work on [the portrait]." (JCC VI, p. 26)
1814 Oct 22 Day-long visit to Nayland. (JCC I, p. 106)
1814 Oct 24 Rough study in oils of cart and horses. (JCC I, p. 106)
1814 Oct 25 Nearly finishes painting of Dedham Vale, commissioned by Mr.
Thomas Fitzhugh as a present to his fiancee, Miss Philadelphia
Godfrey of Old Hall, East Bergholt. (JCC I, p. 106)
1814 Oct 25 Letter from J.C. in East Bergholt to Maria in Brighton: "last
week . . . when the beauty of the day . . . tempted me to
take a walk to Neyland to pass the day with my poor Aunt,
who is now a great invalid. My way was chiefly through
woods and nothing could exceed the beauty of the foliage."
Told her of a letter from John Fisher on the death of his uncle
General Fisher, requesting a "portrait of the poor General
from a drawing. . . . I could give him little hope of making
much of a picture—but I shall willingly try for the great regard
I have for all that family. . . . I was wishing to make the most
of the fine weather by working out of doors. I have almost
done a picture of the 'the Valley' for Mr. Fitzhugh. . . . The
studies I have made this summer are better liked than any I
have yet done." (JCC II, pp. 134-35; see also JCC I, p. 106)
1814 mid-Oct Letter, between 2 and 25 October, from Maria in Brighton to
J.C. in East Bergholt. (JCC II, p. 133)
1814 Nov 2 Oil-sketch of two ploughs. (JCC I, p. 107)
1814 Nov 4 Arrives back in London from East Bergholt. (JCC I, p. 107;
see also JCC II, p. 135)
1814 Nov 5 Farington records: "Constable called having returned from His
Father's in Essex last night. He told me He had been there
long occupied in painting Landscapes from nature."
(Farington XIII, p. 4603)