John Constable
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Fontaine (destitute organist) 165–6, 253
Fonthill, Wiltshire 141–2
Forbin, Comte Auguste de 159
Forster, Thomas: Researches about Atmospheric Phaenomena 128
France: at war with 16, 31, 33, 82, 77, 172; Constable’s success in 159–60; John Charles Constable in 283
Freer, Mary: portrait of (1809) 46
Freud, Lucian xv, 319
Frick, Henry Clay 316
Frith, Mr (music teacher) 200
Frith, W.P. 207, 222, 235
Frost, George 17, 34, 307
Fry, Roger 318
Fuseli, Henry 22, 31, 126, 139
Gainsborough, Thomas 12, 16, 19, 25, 29, 36, 37, 45, 53, 210, 229, 257, 269, 297, 307
Gardner, David 38
Gardner, George 38
Gates, John 7
Gentleman’s Magazine 77, 194, 260
George III 7, 19, 34, 49, 92, 114, 137
George IV (formerly Prince Regent) 49–50, 98, 114, 116, 148, 153, 226, 230
Géricault, Théodore 122, 150
Gessner, Saloman 87
Gillingham, Dorset 117, 118, 141, 142, 168, 198
Gillingham Mill (1826) 168, 171, 177
Gilpin, William 126
On Picturesque Beauty 16
Girtin, Thomas 12, 39, 45, 176, 270
Glebe Farm, The (1830) 204, 295, 317
Godfrey, Mrs 59, 178–9
Godfrey, Peter 5, 59, 72, 73, 109, 135
Godfrey, Philadelphia see Fitzhugh, Philadelphia
Gooch, Dr Robert 120, 137, 173, 187, 188, 251–2, 304
Gosse, Philip 240
Grimwood, Dr Thomas 2, 3, 4, 8, 47
Gubbins, James (Constable’s cousin) 16, 72, 77
Gubbins, James (Constable’s uncle) 36
Gubbins, Mary (née Watts) 36, 92
Gubbins, Colonel Richard 72, 175
Gubbins family 46, 55, 68
Gunn, Martha 158
Hackert, Philipp 272
Hadleigh Castle (The Nore) (1829) 192–4, 256, 308
Ham House, Richmond, Surrey 25, 42
Hamerton, Philip G. 314, 317
Hampstead 108, 109, 130, 131; Constable’s homes: Albion Cottage 109, Lower Terrace 123, 125, Stamford Place 140, Langham Place 173–4, Well Walk House 175–6, 178, 180, 186, 188, 207, 228, 308; St John’s church (Maria’s tomb) 188; West End Fields 215, 263; see also Hampstead Heath
Hampstead Heath 123, 125–6, 127–8, 132; spa waters 109, 176; Constable pictures 130, 131–2, 163, 178, 317, and see below
Hampstead Heath (1821) 120
Hampstead Heath (1827) 177
Hampstead Heath (1828) 182, 184
Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow 317
Hampstead Heath with Harrow in the Distance 317–18
Hampstead Heath with London in the Distance (1830) 207
Harden, Jessy 38
Harden, John 38
Harris, Thomas 151
Harrow (1821) 120
Hart, Mrs 179
Harwich Lighthouse (1821) 115, 116; (1824) 160, 317
Haverfield, J.D. 310
Hay Wain, The (Landscape: Noon) (1821) 120–21, 122–3, 128, 135, 137, 140, 150, 151, 159, 308, 316, 317
Haydon, Benjamin R. 22, 40, 45–6, 101, 111, 131, 199, 250, 292
Hazlitt, William 178 ‘Immortality in Youth’ 211
Heathcote, Katherine Sophia (née Manners), Lady: portrait of 60, 64, 67, 94
Hebbert, Henry 188, 307
Helmingham Dell (1830) 215, 246
Helmingham Park, Suffolk 25–6, 42, 70, 85, 104, 207
Henderson, John 64, 133
Hervieu, Auguste 288
Hill, David: Constable’s ‘English Landscape’ Scenery 278
Hobson, William, and family: portraits of 37
Hogarth, William 14, 15, 269
Holmes, Charles 318
Hooch, Pieter de 234–5, 268–9
Hopkins, John 253
Hopkins, Theresa 253
Hopkins, Captain William 280, 294
Hoppner, John 21, 42
Houses of Parliament: fire (1834) 260–61
Howard, Henry 226
Howard, Luke: Climate of London 128
Howard, Thomas 268
Huet, Paul 314
Hunt, Robert: reviews 65, 106, 122, 135, 171
Huntington, H.E. 316
Hurlock, Reverend Brooke 19
Hurlock, Lucy 16, 19, 27
Hurlock, William 82
Inglis, James 198
Inglis, Jane (née Mason) 198, 272
Ipswich Journal 45, 225; Dr Rhudde’s obituary 107–8
Jackson, John 45, 46, 81, 149, 183–4, 193, 195, 249
Jennings, W.G. 307
John Bull (weekly) 151, 184, 245, 305
Johnson, John G. 316
Jones, George 22, 191
Journal de Paris 152–3
Judkin, Reverend Thomas 140, 152, 153–4, 288, 304, 306
Stolen Moments 154
Keats, John 39, 40, 131, 146
Kebbell, Mr (curate) 51
King, Joseph 100
King, Stilleman: school 3–4
Landscape – breaking up of a shower (1818) 102
Landscape: Noon see Haywain, The Landseer, Edwin 195, 277
Lane, Samuel 22, 101, 103, 110, 117, 243, 245, 252–3, 288; Constable to 133, 181, 299
Lavenham School, Suffolk 4, 203, 282
Lawrence, Sir Thomas 65, 112, 243; views on Constable’s work 52, 169, 199; as President of the Academy 114, 116–17; awarded Legion of Honour by Charles X 160; pictures praised by Constable 183–4; and Constable’s election as Academician 191; death and funeral 199; effects sold 209
Leaping Horse, The (1825) 161–2, 163, 164, 170, 173, 308
Lee, F.R. 198, 244
Lenox, Colonel James 316
Leonardo da Vinci: Trattura (Treatise) 13–14, 127
Leslie, Ann 230
Leslie, Charles R.: meets Constable 97–8; loses to him in Associate election 110; becomes full Academician 169; recognises Maria’s illness is terminal 185; witnesses Chantrey altering Hadleigh Castle 194; dines with Constable 195; unable to visit him due to toothache 200; admires Constable’s ‘daub’ 209; finds draft of dedication to English Landscape 218; views Constable’s ‘Paradise’ at Life Academy 222; at Constable dinner 226; supports Constable after illness 229–30; sends him a de Hooch copy 234; takes teaching post in America 247–8; returns to England 248–9; moves to Rossi’s house 250; with his family at Petworth House 257, 258, 259; sketches with Constable 258; invited to his lectures 267, 270–71; invited to see The Valley Farm 277–8; friendship with Constable 286, 287; artistic talents 286; on Arrangement Committee (1836) 288; at Academy farewell dinner 292; dines with Constable and Wilkie 294; New Year’s celebrations with Constable 296; witnesses his generosity 300; and Constable’s death 302, 303; exhibits Arundel Mill on Constable’s behalf 305; advises Constable’s son 306; organises donation of The Cornfield to National Gallery 306; auctions Constable’s work 307; publishes Constable biography 312–14, see Memoirs… (below)
Constable’s letters and remarks to 181–2, 189–90, 193, 194, 202, 203, 204, 223, 225, 227, 228, 229, 230, 232, 233, 234, 235, 237, 239, 240, 241, 243, 244, 247–8, 257, 261, 263, 265, 267, 268, 280, 281, 282–3, 288, 294, 298
Autobiographical Reflections 314
Autolycus selling his wares 286–7
Handbook for Young Painters 315
Memoirs of the Life of John Constable xv–xvi, xvii, 10; on Sir George Beaumont 143, 144; on Constable: character 111, 287, 300, as collector 33, as copyist of portraits 42, as father 101, 200, lectures 270–71, painting habits 220, 221, 258, sketching Houses of Parliament fire 261, visiting the theatre 178; on Constable’s works: altarpieces 36, Cottage in a Cornfield 98, Dedham Vale: Morning 52, English Landscape 219, Hadleigh Castle 194, landscapes 38, 196, nudes 22, Salisbury Cathedral 224, sky studies 127, Whitehall Stairs 231, 232; on Maria Constable 145, 185, 188; on T
urner’s Helvoetsluys 231; on Van de Velde 126; see also Constable’s letters and remarks (above)
Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman 178, 251, 286
Leslie, George 230
Leslie, Harriet 230, 248, 286, 296, 302
Leslie, Harriet Jane 248
Leslie, Mary 259
Leslie, Robert 201, 249, 259–60, 280–81, 312, 316
Lewis, Henry Greswolde 46, 119, 181, 190; portrait of 67
Leydenhall see Salisbury
Linnell, John 109, 138, 178, 251–2
Michael Angelo’s Frescoes in the Sistine Chapel 252
Linwood, Mary 29
Literary and Scientific Society of Hampstead 265, 270, 293, 303
Literary Gazette 102, 138, 139, 150, 194, 224, 276–7, 292
Literary Souvenir (annual) 261
Lloyd, Charles 39, 40
Lloyd, Sophia 39
Lock, The (1824) 128, 149, 150, 210; mezzotints 217, 261, 274, 275; 1825 version 166
London, Constable’s homes in: 23 Cecil St 18; 52 Upper Norton St 21; 50 Rathbone Place 24, 27; Percy St 44; 49 Frith St 45; 63 Charlotte St 55, 64–5, 109; 1 Keppel St 96, 113, 121, 133; 35 Charlotte St 133–4, 165, 175, 239, 308; see also Hampstead
London Magazine 181
Lott, John 50
Lott, Willy 50; his cottage 70, 105, 275, 278, 320
Loutherbourg, Philippe de 178, 272
Louvre, Paris 159–60, 180, 283, 314
Lucas, David: background 210; on Constable and Dunthorne 10–11; on Lawrence 199; works with Constable on English Landscape prints 210–11, 212–14, 216, 217, 218, 219, 261–2, 263, 265–6, 278, 300, 307; on Stothard and Constable 249; relationship with Constable 261–2, 263–4, 295; fails election to Academy 264; brought linseed oil by Abram Constable 283–4; Constable’s letters and remarks to xvi, 73, 220, 235, 236, 271, 291, 293, 300; death 307
Lucas, Mrs 295
Ludgate, Mrs 246–7
Ludgate, Robert 246
Lyell, Charles: Principles of Geology 240
Maclise, Daniel 220
Constable (c. 1831) 220, 221
Malta (collier) 185
Malvern Hall, nr Solihull 46, 181, 190
Malvern Hall (1822) 135
Manners, Lady Louisa see Dysart, Countess of
Manning, Sarah 91, 154, 156
Manning, William 91, 133, 154
Manningtree church, Suffolk: The Risen Christ (1821) 123, 134, 136
Markfield House, Tottenham 37
Mason, Anne (née Parmenter) 76, 256
Mason, William 76, 84, 104, 107, 256
Meier-Graefe, Julius 297–8, 318–19
Modern Art 318
Mellon, Andrew 316
Mellon, Paul 316
Mermaid (1828 sketch) 190, 190
Michel, Anne 205
Michele, Mr (medical man) 301, 303
Mill Stream, The (1811–14) 278
Milton, John 195, 218, 229, 271
Mirehouse, Elizabeth (née Fisher) 139, 142, 166
Monet, Claude: Hyde Park scenes 317
Monro, Henry 45
Monro, Dr Thomas 45
Montagu, Sir Samuel 318
More, Jacob 272
Morgan, Captain Elisha 249. 294
Morgan, J.P. 316, 318
Morley, Countess of 244
Morning Chronicle 139, 163, 194, 224, 232, 245–6, 303
Morning Herald 102, 291
Morning Post 177, 224, 232, 245, 276, 291, 303
Morrison, James 149, 150
Mulready, William 22, 81, 295
Munro, Hugh 292
Napoleon Bonaparte 16, 31, 34, 77, 79
National Gallery, London 137, 143, 299, 306, 317
Nayland church, Suffolk: Christ Blessing the Bread and Wine (c. 1807) 36, 43, 115; restoration 204
New Monthly Magazine, The 76, 177
News, The 277
Newton, Gilbert Stuart 101, 261
Nixon, J.M. 288
Noble, Sophia: school 200, 203, 206, 282, 299
Nodier, Charles 122, 150
Noon (print) 215, 263
Nore, The see Hadleigh Castle
Northcote, James 22, 42
Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Bart. 67
Observer 122, 223, 247, 277, 290–91
Old Hall (1801) 29
Old Sarum, Wiltshire 118, 196
Old Sarum (watercolours) 196, 256, 256, 317; print 263
‘Old Smoaker’ (Brighton dipper) 158
O’Neill, Eliza: Dawe’s portrait of 77
Osmington, Dorset 88, 92–4, 117, 119, 137, 199, 218
Osmington Shore (1818) 106
Owen, William 91
Parris, Leslie 278
Partridge, Professor 303
Peel, Sir Robert 228, 234
Philadelphia (ship) 249, 294
Phillips, Charles 101
Phillips, Harry 141–2
Phillips, Henry 159, 170, 174, 265
Phillips, Thomas 110, 181, 182, 258
Pickergill, H.W. 112, 193
Pierce (Pearce), Reverend Thomas and Mrs: school (Folkestone) 206, 239–40, 279
Pitt (messenger) 239, 302
Ploughing Scene in Suffolk (1814) 69–70
Pope (actor) 178
Pound House school, Aldham 3–4
Poussin, Gaspar 38
Poussin, Nicolas 18, 24, 131, 143, 169, 267
Pulham, Mrs: portrait of (1818) 102
Pulham, James 160, 163, 246
Pulham, James Brook 316
Purton, William 255, 266, 306, 308, 313; Constable to 268
Pyne, W.H. 159
Rainbow – Salisbury Cathedral, The (mezzotint; 1836–7) 295–6, 300
Raphael 12, 222, 315
Read, David 138, 251
Rebow, General Francis Slater 59, 87, 88, 89, 99, 263, 307
Rebow, Mary: portrait of (1812) 59, 62
Redgrave, Richard 111, 209, 222, 299, 314
(with Samuel Redgrave) A Century of British Painters 313, 317
Reform Bill (1831) 223, 228
Reinagle, Richard Ramsay 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 27, 33–4, 111, 133, 138, 195, 235, 244
Constable 21
Dedham in Flood 19, 23
Rembrandt van Rijn 53, 126, 263, 265, 267
Revans, Mr (steward) 109, 183
Reynolds, Graham: The Later Paintings of John Constable 209
Reynolds, Sir Joshua 12, 15, 29–30, 42, 45, 61, 66, 85, 126, 205, 209, 210, 269, 290, 294; monument to 289–90, see Cenotaph, The Discourses 14, 23, 176, 290
Reynolds, Samuel William 210, 265–6
Rhudde, Dr Durand: background 50; as rector of East Bergholt 7–8, 36, 49, 50–51; and Constable’s courtship of his grand-daughter 47, 49, 50, 58–9, 60–61, 69; and Constable’s picture of East Bergholt church 51; his heart-shaped flower beds 59; 81st birthday 75; and death of daughter 76–7, 79; attentiveness to Constable family 74, 76, 135; and Constable’s disloyalty to John Dunthorne 83; ‘inveterate’ against Constable 83–4; ‘full of indignity’ that Constable does not inherit 86; reactions cease to matter to Constable 87; suggests Constable goes into the Church 88; sends Abram Constable turkey for Christmas 94; wants ‘proper apology’ from Constable 95; draws up new will 95, 105; not displeased at becoming a great-grandfather 101; disposition a concern 104–5; death 107; obituary 107–8
Rhudde, Mrs 51, 105
Richardson, Jonathan 29
Road to the Spaniards, The (1822) 131
Roberts, David 224
Roberts, Elizabeth 123, 125, 134, 142, 153, 173, 186, 201–2, 206, 238, 280, 299, 306, 309, 310
Robertson, Andrew 22, 306
Robertson, Reverend 72, 75
Robinson, Henry Crabb 163
Robinson, Henry Peach: Fading Away 146
Rogers, Samuel 270, 272, 286, 287–8, 302
Romney, George 265
Rosa, Salvator 267
Ross, William C. 288
Rossi, J.C.F. 250
Rousseau, Théodore
314
Rowley, Reverend Joshua 135, 236
Royal Academy of Arts xv, 21–2, 137, 206–7, 305; Presidents 23, 106, 114, 116, 169, 191, 207; Constable admitted as Probationer 17, 18, 21, 22, and Life School student 22–3, 25, 28, 42, 55; civil war between members 34; election of Constable as Associate member 40, 42, 45, 66, 71, 74, 81, 91, 100, 102, 110–12; and death of George III 114; George IV’s birthday dinner 116–17; Constable’s election to full membership 124, 134, 137, 138, 169, 181–2, 191–2, 196, 206–7, 250, 251; Constable on Arrangement Committee 207–8, 223–4; Reynolds’s palette presented to 209; Constable’s Life School Visitorships 220, 221–2, 250, 292, 293, 298–9; ‘varnishing’ days 171, 193–4, 231, 276, 277; Lane and Lucas stand for election 252–3, 264; moves from Somerset House 292–3, 300; and exhibition of Constable’s works 317
Exhibitions: (1797) 16; (1802) 29, 30; (1803) 33; (1804) 34; (1806) 40; (1807) 40; (1810) 44–5; (1811) 52; (1812) 54, 58, 59; (1813) 65; (1814) 69–70; (1815) 76, 85; (1816) 85; (1817) 97; (1818) 103; (1819) 105–7; (1820) 115–16; (1821) 120, 121–3; (1822) 135; (1823) 138–9; (1824) 149–50; (1825) 162, 163; (1826) 170, 171; (1827) 177; (1828) 182, 183–4; (1829) 193–4, 215; (1830) 207–9, 215; (1831) 220–21, 223–4, 233; (1832) 230–32; (1833) 242, 244–6; (1834) 256; (1835) 275–6; (1836) 288–92; (1837) 297, 305; (1847) 311; (1848) 235; (1850) 312
Royal Institution: Constable’s lectures (1836) 267–73
Rubens, Peter Paul 31, 36, 65, 66, 184, 234, 267, 287, 297, 302, 315
Rush, Sir William 135
Ruskin, John 277, 314–15, 317
Ruysdael, Jacob van 18, 23, 27, 96, 234, 267–8, 315
St James’s Chronicle 40, 44
Salisbury 54, 118, 123–4, 141; Leydenhall 107, 117–18, 119, 125, 196, 197, 207, 223
Salisbury Cathedral (various versions) 128, 151, 166
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Grounds (1821–3) 119, 134, 136, 138–9, 198, 253, (1823) 139, 141, 142, (1826) 139
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows (1831) 220, 222–3, 224–5, 306, 316
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows – Summer Afternoon (1836) 292
Salisbury, Morning (1812) 54, 58
Sanford, John 202
Sanford, Louisa (née Bicknell) 63, 68, 71, 90, 108, 173, 182, 202, 228, 284
Sass, Henry/Sass Academy 154, 222, 311
Savage, Mrs (housekeeper) 187, 201
Savell, Zacariah 52
Savile, Christopher 134
Scene on a Navigable River (Flatford Mill) (1817) 97, 317
Scene on a River (1830–37) 278
Schroth, Charles 150, 159, 164, 167
Scovell, Charles 246
Sea Beach, Brighton, A (print) 215, 216, 263
self-portraits: (1804) 35–6; (1806) 40, 41