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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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st.My dear Constai-.le, — The two pictures arrived safe onFriday, and within an hour were up in their places; The WhiteHorse looking very placid, and not as if just returned from theContinent. It is wonderfully improved by Dunthornes coat ofvarnish. The cathedral looks splendidly over the chimney-piece.The picture requires a room full of light. Its internal splendourcomes out in all its power, and the spire sails away with the thunder-clouds. Maidenhead, September i-jth. My dear Constable,—Do not accuse me of neglect. Youwere never more occupied in the month of April preparing for theexhibition than I have been since the month of August. Lastweek there was an ordination, and I preached the sermon, whichyou will soon see in print. ... I write this, sitting in commis- • My father had one of these lovely studies given him by Constable, who, on hisadmiring it in his studio, sent it him the following day with a note, saying, I sendthis at once before 1 have time to spoil it. —lil).
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I 1826.) CONSTABLE ADVISED BV FISHER TO WRITE ON ART. 197 sion upon a dispute between a clergyman and his parishioners, andcompose while the parties argue. There is a brother parsonarguing his own case, with powder, white forehead, and a very redface, like a copper vessel newly tinned. He is mixing up, in atremulous tone, with an eager bloodshot eye, accusations, apologies,statements, reservations, and appeals, till his voice sounds on myear, as I write, like a distant waterfall. . . . I am doubtful about your Brighton Gazette. You are inpossession of some very valuable and original matter on the subjectof painting, particularly on the poetry of the art. I should be sorryto see this seed sown on an unvisited field, where it would blossomin forgetfulness, while some thriving author, like a sparrow, wouldfly off with a sample, and take the credit from you. Throwyour thoughts together as they arise, in a book, that they be notlost; when I come to see you we will look them over, put them

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