Arthur Evans, Clarence Bicknell, and the rock engravings in the Maritime Alps by Graham Avery – October 2024 We are pleased to publish here the latest research paper by Graham Avery… “Immediately after his discovery of rock engravings in Val Fontanalba, Bicknell contacted the prehistorians Arthur Evans ( Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) and […]
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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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The Clarence Bicknell Association announces a campaign to raise funds for the Woodland Trust from the sale of celebrity-signed prints of fine-art-reproduction watercolours by the Victorian polymath, botanist and artist Clarence Bicknell. This first announcement is an appeal … to retail outlets such as museum boutiques and art galleries where the prints could be put
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Some 40 eminent members of the Amici dei Giardini Botanici Hanbury visit London in May 2024 to see the Chelsea Flower Show. On this occasion they are invited by Marcus Bicknell to a dinner in their honour at the Garrick Club. There is considerable interest in the thetrical art collection of the Garrick but no
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On 21st February 2024 I made a revision to the spreadsheet listing all the watercolours and the people who signed the Casa Fontanalba Visitors’ Book. The new version is at the same URL as before i.e. …https://old.clarencebicknell.com/wp-content/uploads/casa_fontanalba_visitors_books.xls. I needed an accurate list of all the watercolours in the book, where in the past I had
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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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An appreciation by Luca Barale The more research is done on Clarence Bicknell, the more we find out about his achievements. We are so grateful to the experts who choose to do this research and it is fun to be able to help them where possible with images and source material. Luca Barale is a
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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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We are delighted to publish here three papers of interest to our readers and important as resources on our web site for researchers to find in a web search. Dssa. Daniela Gandolfi of the Istituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri and the Museo Bicknell in Bordighera is passionate about Clarence Bicknell and has regularly featured his
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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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