On 11th June 1776 John Constable was born to Golding Constable and Ann Constable nee Watts.
1810. Ramsay Richard Reinagle [aged 33]. Portrait of John Constable [aged 33].
1816. John Constable [aged 39]. Portrait of the artist's wife Maria Bicknell around the time of their marriage.
Maria Bicknell: In October 1816 John Constable and she were married by Bishop John Fisher at St Martin in the Fields Church [Map]. They had seven children. On 23rd November 1828 she died.
In October 1816 John Constable [aged 40] and Maria Bicknell were married by Bishop John Fisher [aged 68] at St Martin in the Fields Church [Map]. They had seven children.
1825. John Constable [aged 48]. "Salisbury Cathedral [Map] from the Bishop's Grounds".
1825. John Constable [aged 48]. "The Cornfield". As a gesture of appreciation for John Fisher [aged 77], the Bishop of Salisbury, who commissioned this painting, Constable included the Bishop and his wife in the bottom left corner.
On 23rd November 1828 [his wife] Maria Bicknell died.
1829. John Constable [aged 52]. "Hadleigh Castle [Map]".
1831. John Constable [aged 54]. "Salisbury Cathedral [Map] from the Meadows".
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1835. John Constable [aged 58]. Stonehenge. When he exhibited it in 1836, Constable appended a text to the title: "The mysterious monument of Stonehenge, standing remote on a bare and boundless heath, as much unconnected with the events of past ages as it is with the uses of the present, carries you back beyond all historical records into the obscurity of a totally unknown period."
On 31st March 1837 John Constable [aged 60] died.