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He visited Suffolk in the spring and paid his first visit to Salisbury in the autumn: this was probably the occasion of his first meeting with John Fisher, who was to become his closest friend.  His attachment to Maria Bicknell became known during this year, and he received her father's permission to write to her in October.'\r\n\r\n[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 69]","briefDescription":"Oil sketch of barges on the Stour by John Constable, England, c.1811","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Morris, Edward, ed. <u> Constable's Clouds: Paintings and Cloud Studies by John Constable </u>,  Edinburgh : National Galleries of Scotland ; Liverpool : National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, c2000. 176 p. : ill. (some col.). 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