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He advised a visitor to his studio, 'never do anything without nature before you...See those weeds and the dock leaves?...I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me'. 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He exhibited 'Hadleigh Castle' (now in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon; see No. 127 [D.234-1888] in this Catalogue) and a landscape of a \"rich cottage\". He paid his last two visits to Fisher at Salisbury, in July and in November. His preparations for <i>English Landscape Scenery</i> got under way in this year: the earliest letter on the subject to Lucas printed by Shirley (S.: L., p. 20) is dated 28 August 1829.' \r\n                                 \r\n[G Reynolds, 1973, p.190]","briefDescription":"Oil painting, 'Study of Foliage', John Constable, ca. 1828","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<i>Catalogue of the Constable Collection</i>, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 190, 197"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"p. 79","free":"Shân Lancaster, ed. <i>Constable and Brighton: something out of nothing</i>. London : Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd, 2017. 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