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Halima Cassell and Clarence’s symmetrical watercolours

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Celebrated artist/sculptor Halima Cassell talks about her love of Clarence’s symmetrical botanical watercolours which are hidden away in the archive of the Fitzwillia m Museum in Cambridge University. Symmetry is a way of seeing nature adopted with such success by William de Morgan https://www.demorgan.org.uk/. https://fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/conversations/podcasts/in-my-minds-eye/a-simple-shape-repeated-halima-cassell Here is a gallery of photos taken in 2017 by […]

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Elhanan Bicknell, Turner and “The Whalers”

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I enjoyed falling upon this excellent article by Sarah Monks of the University of East Anglia about Elhanan Bicknell, Clarence’s father, and JMW Turner over The Whalers. Read it in full at https://hoaportal.york.ac.uk/hoaportal/turnerwhaleEssay.jsp?id=307 Excerpt: And yet [Turner] was also looking to sell his whaling pictures, to a wealthy contemporary-art-loving patron, rendering up an artistic commodity

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“Botanici sulle cime – Botanistes aux Sommets” domenica 20 novembre, Bordighera, a partire dalle ore 16.

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We are pleased to confirm a second conference on the same weekend in November, in Bordighera, with the same speakers from the Clarence Bicknell Association … Incontro previsto per domenica 20 novembre nel Salone del Museo Bicknell di Bordighera, a partire dalle ore 16. Botanici sulle cime – Botanistes aux Sommets Con interventi diDssa. Daniela

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“Des Botanistes aux sommets” 19 novembre 2022 à Nice

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We are pleased to confirm the conference in Nice with speakers from the Clarence Bicknell Association … L’ACADÈMIA NISSARDALES AMIS DU MUSÉUM D’HISTOIRE NATURELLE DE NICEen partenariat avec LE MUSÉUM D’HISTOIRE NATURELLE DE NICEInvitation, Rencontre et conférences“Des Botanistes aux sommets”samedi 19 novembre 2022 à 16H30au Palais de l’Agriculture à Nice, 113, Promenade des Anglais, Nice

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Jo Koster – Dutch artist in Bordighera 1899-1900

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Today I received an interesting email from Francisca van Vloten, Head Curator & Advisor to the Museum Domburg in the Netherlands, asking whether Clarence knew Jo Koster, the Dutch artist, who stayed in Bordighera from December 1899 to March 1900 in the Villa Constantia and the Pension du Paradis. If you know anything about this

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The Paradise of the English in the Ligurian Riviera – Clarence Bicknell presence

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We are delighted to announce that Clarence Bicknell will be well represented at an international conference on The Paradise of the English in the Ligurian Riviera – Stories, Landscapes and People at the Villa Marigola near La Spezia in Italy on 25-26 March 2022. I have been invited to present a paper and have co-authored

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Clarence Bicknell’s three main books now available online

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Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Riviera and Neighbouring MountainsClarence Bicknell, 1885https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Flora_of_Bordighera_and_San_Remo.html?id=TkC9QAAACAAJ&redir_esc=yThe printed version of the book is available at AbeBooks for about £20 (print on demand). Copies of the first edition have occasionally been available in the past from specialised booksellers for about £350. Flora of Bordighera and San RemoClarence Bicknell, 1896https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Flora_of_Bordighera_and_San_Remo/oKM-AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Fritz+Mader&printsec=frontcoverThe printed version

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