Marcus Bicknell

English translations below Siamo lieti di annunciare una grande mostra che coinvolge Clarence Bicknell e il suo amico Prof. Arturo Issel a Genova dal 25 novembre 2023 al 7 gennaio 2024. Il Palazzo Ducale di Genova ospita entrambe le mostre https://palazzoducale.genova.it/mostra /chronos/ e una serie di conferenze https://palazzoducale.genova.it/evento/laboratori-attivita-collaterali-alla-mostra-chronos/ e una il 20 dicembre alla quale

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Gisella Merello (storica, ricercatrice e scrittrice di Bordighera, e Compagna dell’Associazione Clarence Bicknell) ha onorato l’Associazione Clarence Bicknell chiedendoci di pubblicare su questo sito quattro dei suoi articoli, in italiano. Sono ciascuno relativo a Bordighera e Clarence Bicknell in modi diversi. Gisella Merello (historian, reseacher and writer in Bordighera, and Companion of the Clarence Bicknell

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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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You can now browse many of Clarence Bicknell’s works of art in galleries on our web site organised by category Gallery – The Book of Guests in Esperanto https://clarencebicknell.com/gallery-the-casa-fontanalba-visitors-book/ Gallery – The Children’s Picture Book of Wild Plants https://clarencebicknell.com/gallery-the-fitzwilliam-albums/ Gallery – botanical works Marcus Bicknell 30 September 2023

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Excerpt… set off in search of the largest Ficus macrophylla in western Europe. The tree, commonly known as the strangler fig, was planted in 1886 by Clarence Bicknell, British botanist, collector, lover of Esperanto and chaplain of Bordighera’s Anglican church.Bicknell loved the hilly, pine-covered coast between Sanremo and the French Riviera, but ended up loathing

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Announcing an innovative exhibition involving Clarence Bicknell … CHRONOS… The AI-enhanced exhibitionTHE FOOTPRINT OF MAN IN THE ANTHROPOCENE OF LIGURIA350,000 YEARS AGO TO NOW The exhibition is curated by Stefano Schiaparelli (Associate Professor (Zoology and Marine Biology) at the Università degli Studi di Genova) acting for the university’s Rector’s delegate for the enhancement and propagation

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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/clarence-bicknell-a-revolution-in-art-tickets-724309247457 Illustrated Talk on Clarence Bicknell, the Renowned Botanic Painter by his great grand nephew Marcus Bicknell In April 2023 Marcus Bicknell and Selby Wittingham discussed Elhanan Bicknell’s early patronage of JMW Turner and more classical artists. Now Marcus, Elhanan’s great great grandson, returns to show how Elhanan’s son Clarence moved naturally towards the more

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