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Title: Life and letters of John Constable, R. A
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859
Subjects: Contable, John, 1776-1837 Artists
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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have been at any later period ; and his desire to follow this up by
farther acts of friendship will be seen in a letter dated— April igth, 1820.
"MY DEAR CONSTABLE,—I am under obligations to an archi-tect here who has retired from business. I want to make him apresent of something near £ 20. I would rather give him one of
your pictures, if I thought he would appreciate it. See what you
can do for me. . . Do not part with your London and West-
minster view without apprising me, as I rather think I shall like
to have it, in case I am strong enough in purse. At any rate,
/ can do you no harm by saying no, if I cannot purchase. I am
infinitely obliged by your purchase of the Claude. You can send
it me down with the picture. You did right in sending the sea-
coast windmill to the exhibition. Pray come as soon as you can,
and stay as long as you can."

"SALISBURY, April 27th.

" 'The White Horse ' has arrived safe; it is hung on a level
with the eye, the frame resting on the ogee moulding in a western
side-light, right for the light in the picture. It looks magnifi-

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THE WHITE HORSE.

1820] " THE WHITE HORSE. " 93

cently. My wife says she carries her eye from the picture to the
garden and back again, and observes the same sort of look in
both. I have shown it to no one, and intend to say nothing about
it, but leave it to people to find it out, and make their own
remarks. I am quite impatient to see you here, and wish your
young family would permit your wife to join the party.

" J. Fisher."

" The White Horse," on many accounts the most important
picture, to Constable, he ever painted, and certainly one of the
finest, is now in the possession of L. Archer Burton, Esq., of The
Woodlands, Hants. In a letter written to Miss Gubbins (a lady
related to that gentleman and to Constable), at a late period
of his life, he calls it one of my happiest efforts on a large scale, being a placid representation of a serene grey morning
summer."

KEPPEL STREET, September 1st, 1820.
"MY DEAR FISHER,— ... I have settled my wife and chil-
dren comfortably at Hampstead. I am glad to get them out of
London, for every reason. Things do not look well, though I fear

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