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 […]
Casa Fontanalba Visitors’ Book – transcript completed Read More »
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
Talk on Clarence in London on 5th October 2023 Read More »
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
Clarence’s childhood home, and what happened to the house Read More »
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
Elhanan Bicknell, Clarence’s father, live in London Read More »
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
Clarence Bicknell – a video invitation Read More »
The famous letter of 31 July 1845 from Joseph Mallord William Turner to his patron Elhanan Bicknell is up for sale again. The asking price in February 2023 at Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. is € 9,500.00, three times the hammer price of $ 2,750 in May 2017. Turner was a frequent visitor to Elhanan Bicknell’s mansion
I have a whale or two on the canvas… Turner’s letter to Elhanan Bicknell Read More »
We publish today the spreadsheet of every letter and drawing by Clarence in the Bicknell Family Collection. We have over 2,000 data points, those are works by Clarence which have a date and place written on them. We have been able to trace his movements from his arrival in Bordighera in 1878 to his death
The Chronology of Clarence’s Life and Works Read More »
Tourists and meteorologists in the Italian Riviera: The Journal de Bordighera (1883–1935) as a source for the study of the local climate. I fell upon this interesting scientific article at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305748821000086 The Italian Riviera was, from the second half of the nineteenth century to the Second World War, one of the most famous, elitist, climatic,
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We are pleased to publish here the new paper by Graham Avery on the celebrated botanist Reginald Farrer who crossed paths with Clarence Bicknell in the Italian Alps. Graham presented this paper to the European Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Group (EBHL) at the Plantentuin Meise, Belgium, on 20 October 2022 and is entitled ‘Reginald Farrer
Reginald Farrer in the Alps 1899-1917 – by Graham Avery Read More »
L’image à Facebook de la Mairie de Tende me rappelle le recent papier de mon collègue Graham Avery au sujet de Fritz Mader (1872-1921) dont le père a construit sa maison à Tende, maintenant cette belle Mairie. Le père était le pasteur luthérien de Nice, Philip Friedrich Mader. Fritz, son fils, était pionnier de l’Histoire
Mairie de Tende – Fritz Mader Read More »
