Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for John Constable across 5 places, from 1816 to 1837.
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John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where John Constable was documented, and when
October 1816month
St Martin-in-the-Fieldsattested“John and Maria's marriage in October 1816 at St Martin-in-the-Fields (with Fisher officiating) was followed by time at Fisher's vicarage and a honeymoon tour of the south coast.”source: Wikipedia: John Constable
1817year
Royal Academy of Artsattested“Although Flatford Mill failed to find a buyer when it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1817, its fine and intricate execution drew much praise, encouraging Constable to move on to the even larger canvases that were to follow.”source: Wikipedia: John Constable
1836year
Royal Institutionattested“In a series of lectures at the Royal Institution in 1836, Constable proposed a three-fold thesis: firstly, painting "is scientific as well as poetic"; secondly, "that imagination never did, and never can" produce art to bear comparison w…”source: Wikipedia: John Constable
31 March 1837exact date
Londonattested“He died on the night of 31 March 1837, apparently from heart failure, and was buried with Maria in the graveyard of St John-at-Hampstead Church in Hampstead in London.”source: Wikipedia: John Constable
31 March 1837exact date
Hampsteadattested“He died on the night of 31 March 1837, apparently from heart failure, and was buried with Maria in the graveyard of St John-at-Hampstead Church in Hampstead in London.”source: Wikipedia: John Constable
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1780year
Romementioned“The sketches themselves were the first ever done in oils directly from the subject in the open air, with the notable exception of the oil sketches Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes made in Rome around 1780.”source: Wikipedia: John Constable
1803year
Royal Academy of Artsmentioned“By 1803, he was exhibiting paintings at the Royal Academy.”source: Wikipedia: John Constable
1811year
Salisburymentioned“In 1811 he first visited John Fisher and his family in Salisbury, a city whose cathedral and surrounding landscape were to inspire some of his greatest paintings.”source: Wikipedia: John Constable
1821year
Royal Academy of Artsmentioned“In 1821, his most famous painting The Hay Wain was shown at the Royal Academy's exhibition.”source: Wikipedia: John Constable
1824 to 1828period
Brightonmentioned“Her growing illness meant that Constable took lodgings for his family in Brighton from 1824 until 1828, in the hope the sea air could restore her health.”source: Wikipedia: John Constable
1824year
Francementioned“In a letter to Fisher in 1824 he wrote In his lifetime, Constable sold only 20 paintings in England, but in France he sold more than 20 in just a few years.”source: Wikipedia: John Constable
1824year
Englandmentioned“In a letter to Fisher in 1824 he wrote In his lifetime, Constable sold only 20 paintings in England, but in France he sold more than 20 in just a few years.”source: Wikipedia: John Constable
1825year
Brightonmentioned“Despite this, he refused all invitations to travel internationally to promote his work, writing to Francis Darby: "I would rather be a poor man [in England] than a rich man abroad." In 1825, perhaps due partly to the worry of his wife's…”source: Wikipedia: John Constable
1825year
Englandmentioned“Despite this, he refused all invitations to travel internationally to promote his work, writing to Francis Darby: "I would rather be a poor man [in England] than a rich man abroad." In 1825, perhaps due partly to the worry of his wife's…”source: Wikipedia: John Constable
1827year
Londonmentioned“The power of his physical effects was sometimes apparent even in the full-scale paintings which he exhibited in London; The Chain Pier, 1827, for example, prompted a critic to write: "the atmosphere possesses a characteristic humidity ab…”source: Wikipedia: John Constable
January 1828month
Hampsteadmentioned“After the birth of their seventh child in January 1828, they returned to Hampstead where Maria died on 23 November at the age of 41.”source: Wikipedia: John Constable
February 1829month
Royal Academy of Artsmentioned“He was elected to the Royal Academy in February 1829, at the age of 52.”source: Wikipedia: John Constable
1831year
Royal Academy of Artsmentioned“In 1831 he was appointed Visitor at the Royal Academy, where he seems to have been popular with the students.”source: Wikipedia: John Constable
1831 to 1833period
East Bergholtmentioned“Constable also became interested in painting rainbow effects, for example in Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, 1831, and in Cottage at East Bergholt, 1833.”source: Wikipedia: John Constable
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