This is a note from Selby Whittingham on Turner’s The Blue Rigi in a forthcoming book on Turner, which will also reproduce one of the Whaler pictures. It was bought off Turner by Clarence Bicknell’s father Elhanan in 1842, the year of Clarence’s birth at Herne Hill. “The Blue Rigi: Lake of Lucerne – Sunrise […]
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I was recently given the okay to scan some photos in the colection of the late Mark Bicknell, my cousin, of Nettlebed. Several of them were new to me so it is appropriate to make them available here online for the benefit of researchers. Archive photos of mine are added here to complete the picture.
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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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The idea of the 2024 exhibition gives me the opportunity to root out creations by Clarence which have been lying in bottom drawers for 100 years. One of the them is a hand painted set of playing cards; the families for Happy Families are of course species of mountain flowers, photo right. The owner, my
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The Casa Fontanalba Visitors’ Book has proved to be a useful research tool. Since the list of Clarence Bicknell’s guests in his mountain home were transcribed by Marcus Bicknell in 2005 onto an Excel spreadsheet, several researchers have found by Googling a mention of someone they were researching. This has enabled them to spread their
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My talk on Elhanan Bicknell (Clarence’s father, whale oil tycoon and patron of many artists including J. M. W. Turner) for the Kensington and Chelsea Over-50s Forum in Chelsea on 20th April 2023 alongside Selby Wittingham of the Independent Turner Society has had a welcome result. Their Marketing & Fundraising Director Mina Nakhai has invited
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I am delighted to see that Sharon O’Connor of the Dulwich Society www.dulwichsociety.com published back in 2020 a good essay on Elhanan Bicknell’s house at Herne Hill. This is the mansion full of art where Clarence Bicknell grew up, learning to paint and draw from his mother Lucinda. Sharon’s paper is a very good essay
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We have just spent a pleasurable and stimulating day in London town presenting to the Kensington and Chelsea Over-50s Forum; beautifully run and in close harmony with the borough council. The event was in the presentation room of the Holy Trinity Church Sloane Square and I presented alongside Turner expert Selby Wittingham. One of the
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Clarence Bicknell – a video invitation to you from Marcus Bicknell to join the Clarence Bicknell Association – aimed primarily at Bicknells and the wider family in the USA, Europe and worldwide. Yes please, we would love your modest support, and it would be a pleasure to count you among our number. Marcus Bicknell invites
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