son of Golding Constable, a wealthy country merchant and miller
with Joseph Farington and George Beaumont at the Royal Academy (1799)
1802 – begins exhibiting at Royal Academy
1808 – begins producing oil sketches from nature
1814 – begins submitting paintings to Royal Academy in hope of being elected an Associate
1816 – marries and settles in London
1819 – elected RA Associate; move to Hampstead; first cloud studies
1824 – The Haywain and View on the Stour near Dedham sold to John Arrowsmith, a Parisian art dealer; awarded gold medal at the Paris Salon for Haywain; moves to Brighton
1829 – full member of RA
1830s – lectures on history of landscape at Hampstead Literary and Scientific Society; teaches life drawing at RA; publishes English Landscape Scenery (1830), a series of mezzotints engraved by David Lucas
1834 – lectures at Worcester
1835 – lectures at the Royal Institution
Lake District (1806); Salisbury (1811; 1820); East Bergholt (1817); Arundel (1834, 1835); regular visits to Hampstead (from 1819-1824)
Dr. John Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury; John Arrowsmith
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