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by Anthony Bailey


  Sharp, Russell 246, 253

  Shee, Martin Archer 106, 207, 208, 226, 228–9, 244, 268, 292

  Sheepshanks, John 184, 209, 295, 308

  Shower, A (1821) 120

  Siddons, Sarah 66

  Skey, Samuel 61

  Skey, Sarah (née Bicknell, later Fletcher) 51, 52, 54, 57, 61, 182, 271

  Smirke, Robert 53

  Smith, J.H. 308

  Smith, John Thomas (‘Museum’) 14, 15–16, 17, 19, 27, 87, 247, 253

  Remarks on Rural Scenery 16, 17

  Smith, Martha (‘Patty’; a Nayland aunt) 36, 72, 84, 101, 115

  Soane, Sir John 171

  Somerset House Gazette 159

  Somerset House Terrace and St Paul’s, from Waterloo Bridge (1824) 148, 148

  South, Burton 239, 241–2, 308

  South, Jane (née Gubbins) 203, 239, 308

  South, Lancelot see Archer-Burton, Lancelot

  South, Mr and Mrs Lionel 175

  Southey, Robert: Life and Letters of Cowper 301

  South Kensington Museum see Victoria & Albert Museum

  Sparrow, W.J. 219

  Spectator, The 215, 216, 256, 274–5, 277

  Spedding, Anthony 96, 108, 109, 131, 246, 296

  Spedding, Miss 296

  Spring (mezzotint) 130, 215, 263

  Spring: East Bergholt Common (mezzotint) 313

  Stanfield, Clarkson 232, 260, 276, 292, 306

  Steen, Jan 268

  Stendhal (Henri Beyle) 153

  Stewart, Mr: Constable to 294

  Stocks, Miss (balloonist) 151

  Stoke-by-Nayland (1815) 79

  Stoke-by-Nayland (print) 217–18, 263

  Stonehenge (1836) 288, 291–2, 317

  Story, A.T. 251

  Stothard, Thomas 22, 42, 45, 57, 66, 108, 154, 166, 230, 248, 249–50, 299

  Stour River and Valley x–xi, 1–2, 3, 6–7, 8, 11, 14

  Stour Valley and Dedham Village (1814–15) 72, 76, 85

  Stratford Mill (1820) 115–16, 136, 154, 159, 167–8, 318; mezzotint 263

  Strowger, Sam 23–4, 70, 100

  Strutt, Ben 16

  Study of Trees, A (1823) 139

  Sykes, Mr (dancing teacher) 175, 183

  Tambora, Mount: eruption (1816) 87

  Taylor, Ann 19–20

  Taylor, Miss (schooltacher) 83

  Taylor, Tom 317

  Telegraph (barge) 6, 8, 32, 47, 51, 52, 279

  Teniers, David 15, 315

  Thackeray, William 171

  Thomson, Flora 100

  Thomson, Henry 66, 101

  Thomson, James 218, 271

  The Seasons 170, 193, 223

  Thoré, Théophile 314

  Tidey, Alfred 290, 300

  Tidey, Robert 290

  Tillotson, John 91

  Times, The 153, 171, 177, 194, 224, 283, 291

  Tinney, John 116, 135–6, 142, 154, 159, 167–8

  Titian 266, 298, 307

  Tollemache family 25; see Dysart, Earl of

  Torin, Captain 32

  Travis, William 51, 74, 75, 78, 82, 83, 85, 94–5, 101, 107, 145, 172, 180

  Trees at Hampstead 317

  Trimmer, Henry Syer 145, 278

  Turner, J.M.W.: his pictures disliked by Beaumont 13, 143; a rising star at the Academy 22; goes to the Continent 31; has slanging match with Bourgeois 34; relationship with Constable 32, 34, 45, 65–6, 98, 117, 140, 163, 181–2, 191; promotes own pictures 69; chairs AGBI 103; comparisons with Constable 106, 224, 259, 292, 314, 315–16, 318, 319; at George IV’s birthday dinner 117; and observation of the sky 126; ‘great row’ with Constable 140; pictures praised by Constable 171, 184, 290, 295; criticised for splattering canvases with soapsuds and whitewash 194, 224; disgusted by Wilkie’s remark 199; as Life School Visitor 221–2, 298; annoyed by Constable’s hanging arrangements 223–4; usage of ‘varnishing’ time 231; and Lord Egremont 258, 259, 287; sketches Houses of Parliament fire 260; as lecturer 272; engravings of his pictures 275; championed by Ruskin 277, 315

  The Bay of Baiae 139

  The Bridge of Sighs 276

  Caligula’s Palace and Bridge 223

  Chain Pier, Brighton 157, 259

  Dido and Aeneas 70

  Dutch Boats in a Gale 24

  Forum Romanum 171

  Frosty Morning 65

  The Golden Bough 276

  Hannibal 117

  The Harbour of Dieppe 163

  Helvoetsluys 231

  Liber Studiorum 30, 110, 117, 211, 212

  Mortlake Terrace 292

  Rain, Steam and Speed 292

  Staffa, Fingal’s Cave 316

  Uwins, Thomas 22

  Valley Farm, The (1835) 275–8, 280; small version 316

  Various Subjects of Landscape … see English Landscape

  Varley, John 226

  Vaughan, Henry 317

  Velde, Willem van de 24, 126

  Vermeer, Johannes 314

  Vernet, Claude-Joseph 269, 272

  Vernon, Robert 276, 278, 283

  Victoria & Albert Museum 209, 278, 317

  Victory (1803 sketches) 32, 33; (1806 watercolour) 33, 40

  View in Westmoreland (1807) 40

  View of London from Hampstead Heath 308

  View on the Stour, near Dedham see Bridge, The

  Wakefield, Priscilla 17, 37

  Walker, Reverend Thomas 119

  Walker, Dr William: portrait of (1818) 102

  Watermeadows at Salisbury (c. 1820, exhib. 1830) 207–9, 208, 308

  Waterloo, Anthonie (1610–1690) 33

  Waterloo Bridge see Whitehall Stairs…

  Watermill at Gillingham, Dorset, A 317

  Watts, Alaric 261

  Watts, David Pike 7, 16, 36, 37–8, 42, 43, 53–4, 57, 64, 66, 68, 77, 85, 86, 100, 194

  Watts, John 32

  Watts-Russell, Mary 100, 101, 134

  Weight, Richard 55, 64, 94, 96

  Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of 115, 227

  Wells, William 195, 243, 244

  Wenn (steward) 147

  West, Benjamin 23, 29, 31, 34, 36, 37, 42, 59, 65, 66, 114, 136

  Death on the Pale Horse 107

  West, James 44

  Westall, Richard 244

  Western, Captain Thomas: portrait of (1812) 60, 62, 63

  Westmorland, Lord 152

  Weymouth Bay with Jordan Hill (c. 1816) 92, 93

  Whalley, Alicia 142–3

  Whalley, Daniel (Martha’s father-in-law) 28

  Whalley, Daniel (Martha’s brother-in-law) 28

  Whalley, Reverend Daniel (Martha’s son) 239, 313

  Whalley, Martha (‘Patty’; née Constable) 3, 5; marriage 7; subscribes to J.T. Smith’s book 16; entertains Constable in London 20; and mother’s death 75; cheers the family up 85; unable to go to Constable’s wedding 90; has Maria to stay 95; in Suffolk to discuss family matters 110; sends remedy for whooping cough 176; and Maria’s illness 187, 189; and Johnny Dunthorne 204, 229; has Constables to stay 225

  Whalley, Nathaniel 7, 20

  Whalley family 46, 72, 77, 121, 147

  Wheat Field, A (1816) 85

  White, Gilbert: Natural History of Selborne 119–20

  White Horse, The (1819) 105–7, 110, 118, 164, 169, 198, 288, 308, 316, 318

  Whitehall Stairs, June 18th 1817 (Waterloo Bridge) (1817–32) 98, 116, 119, 148–9, 166, 169–70, 230–32, 249

  Wilkie, David 22, 40, 45, 112, 193, 195, 199, 248, 250–51, 286, 290, 292, 294–5; Constable to 265, 306

  Columbus 250

  Rent Day 23

  The Sick Lady visited by her Physician 45, 250

  Wilkins, William: Royal Academy building 299

  William IV 227, 251; coronation 226–7

  Williams, Elizabeth 134

  Wilson, Richard 12, 22, 133, 143, 176, 269, 307, 315

  Hadrian’s Villa 23

  Wilton, Joseph 18, 22

  Wingfield, Dr John: portrait of (1818) 102

  Wivenhoe P
ark (1816–17) 89, 97, 242

  Woodgate, Mr 183

  Worcester Guardian 271

  Wordsworth, Christopher 39

  Wordsworth, John 93–4

  Wordsworth, Priscilla (née Lloyd) 39

  Wordsworth, William 39–40, 218, 270, 289, 291, 306; Constable to 143, 176

  Worgan, Mr (agent) 38

  Wouwerman, Philips 272

  Yarmouth Jetty (1824) 150

  Yarmouth Pier (1831) 220–21

  Young, George 201, 270, 303

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