


Clarence Bicknell is best known for his meticulous recording of the thousands of prehistoric engravings in the Mont Bégo area. Clarence’s great-grand-nephew Marcus (born 1948) and his wife Susie chose to focus this exhibition on a less well-known side of Clarence: his artistic and design talents, and his greatest passion… flowers and plants. The inspiration they gave him is revealed in the hand-painted pages of the vellum-bound albums he made for family and friends, seven of which are in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, England. Illustrations from these albums were shown for the first time in the 2018 exhibition there.

The Anglicana exhibition then moved on the the Museo Bicknell in Bordighera and ran from 24th October to 30 November 2017. Exhibitions with a smaller selection of Clarence’s work ran in 2018 at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, England, at the Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge, England, at the Musée des Merveilles in Tende, France, and at the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle de Nice.

