"solicitor to the Admiralty and the Prince Regent, became father-in-law to John Constable. His eldest daughter Maria Elizabeth Bicknell married Constable in 1816. John Bicknell John Bicknell, the elder (baptised 1746 – 1787) was an English barrister and writer. He was co-author with Thomas Day of the abolitionist poem ""The Dying Negro"" from 1773. Bicknell has also been credited with ""Musical Travels through England"", a pseudonymous satire on Charles Burney. The second son of Robert Bicknell of the Inner Temple, he was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1761. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1769."
"found dull, though he executed many fine portraits. He also painted occasional religious pictures but, according to John Walker, ""Constable's incapacity as a religious painter cannot be overstated."" Constable adopted a routine of spending winter in London and painting at East Bergholt in summer. In 1811 he first visited John Fisher and his family in Salisbury, a city whose cathedral and surrounding landscape were to inspire some of his greatest paintings. From 1809, his childhood friendship with Maria Elizabeth Bicknell developed into a deep, mutual love. Their marriage in 1816 when Constable was 40 was opposed by Maria's grandfather, Dr"
"painting, finished in September 1816, earned the artist enough money to allow him to marry his long-time love, Mary Bicknell. They married in October 1816. Constable's art is always penetrated by longing, melancholy and a yearning for the simple, natural life, for a bucolic, pastoral idyll, to rural subjects and aspects of life in the countryside, a ""golden age"" when people lived together in harmony with nature, a world on its way of disappearing when he painted his landscapes thanks to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. He was aware of the issue of urban growth, of urban life's unpleasantness-"
"Clarence Bicknell Clarence Bicknell (27 August 1842-17 July 1918) was a British vicar, amateur archaeologist, botanist, artist, Esperantist, author and philanthropist. He founded the Bicknell Museum in Bordighera, Italy. Also named after him is a street in Bordighera, and two plant species. Clarence was the youngest son of successful British businessman and patron of the arts, Elhanan Bicknell (1788-1861), and his third wife, Lucinda Sarah (1801-1850). Clarence and the ten of his siblings that survived childhood grew up in their parents' mansion, surrounded by extensive gardens, at Herne Hill, London. He was just seven years old when his mother died"
"Christabel Cockerell Christabel Annie Cockerell (baptized 21 October 1864–18 March 1951) was a British painter of children, portraits and landscapes. She married the sculptor Sir George Frampton, becoming Lady Frampton, but continued to exhibit her art using her maiden name. She was born in 1863, daughter of George Russell Cockerell of London, and trained at the Royal Academy Schools from 1882, where she met her future husband, the sculptor George Frampton. They married in April 1893 and their son, Meredith Frampton was born on 17 March 1894. She exhibited work at the Royal Academy from 1885, and continued until 1910,"
"1816, and whose portrait was engraved by William Dickinson after a painting by her. Between the years 1809 and 1824 she exhibited at the Royal Academy and elsewhere several figure-subjects and portraits, among the latter being in 1816 those of Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet, lord mayor of London, and of her husband. She also practised modelling, exhibiting two busts at the Royal Academy in 1819. Lady Bell died in Dean Street, Soho, in 1825. Her own portrait has been engraved by Edward Scriven from a miniature by W. S. Lethbridge. Maria Bell Lady Maria Bell (""née"" Hamilton; 26 December"
"Anglican bishop John Fisher and his family in Salisbury, but from 1809 onwards his childhood friendship with Maria Bicknell developed into a deep, mutual love. Their engagement in 1816 was opposed by Maria's grandfather, Dr. Rhudde, rector of East Bergholt, who considered the Constables his social inferiors and threatened Maria with disinheritance. Maria's father, Charles Bicknell, a solicitor, was reluctant to see Maria throw away this inheritance, and Maria herself pointed out that a penniless marriage would detract from any chances John had of making a career in painting. After the death of his parents in the same year, Constable"
"Bicknell began an erratic career as a classics teacher and farmer in New York, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. He became the principal of the Canton Academy in 1856, the same year he married Arvilla Jane Bacon, who became his lifelong assistant and collaborator. Their daughter Cora was born on January 12, 1857; she later became a professional musician in New York. It was around this time that Bicknell started developing his interest in botany, by collecting plants with fellow teachers on weekends. He saw a copy of Henry William Ravenel's ""Fungi Caroliniani Exsiccati"", a set of dried specimens (exsiccati) collected"
"at East Bergholt, and the last in which the artist painted directly from the scenery of his Suffolk childhood. Constable began the picture a few months before his marriage to Maria Bicknell, writing to her on 12 September 1816: Constable made several drawings and oil sketches of the subject from various angles. Although the final painting was executed largely on the spot, various details were added in the studio later: the boy and the horse; the timberwork in the foreground; the mooring-post on the left. It is known from later x-rays that Constable painted out a horse on the tow-path,"
"1784 at St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham. The same day, Day paid the £500 wedding dowry he had stipulated in the contract he had set up with Bicknell, ending his £50 () per year stipend. The couple bought a house in Shenfield and had two children, John Laurens Bicknell and Henry Edgeworth Bicknell. Bicknell carried on with his gambling habits, squandering the remaining money over the following three years. On 27 March 1787, after three years of marriage, John Bicknell died of a paralytic stroke. Sabrina and her two children were now left without an income. Day sent her a new"
"sitting by a window, working on his sculpture, watched by his young son. Her husband died on 21 May 1928, and in 1930 she presented several bronzes to Camberwell Borough Council's art gallery in his memory, because of his affection for Camberwell. Paintings by Cockerell include: Christabel Cockerell Christabel Annie Cockerell (baptized 21 October 1864–18 March 1951) was a British painter of children, portraits and landscapes. She married the sculptor Sir George Frampton, becoming Lady Frampton, but continued to exhibit her art using her maiden name. She was born in 1863, daughter of George Russell Cockerell of London, and trained"
"all of whom married known figures in the contemporary art world. Mary Anne (born 24 August 1794) married in 1817 (as his second wife) the architect John Buonarotti Papworth (1775–1847), Leonora (born 4 February 1798) married in 1827 another architect, William Adams Nicholson (1803–53), and Emma (born 4 May 1800) married also in 1827 George Morant (1770–1846), who ran a flourishing Bond Street business in furniture and picture-framing. In the mid-1840s, Frederick visited the Thompson family of Kirby Hall, at Little Ouseburn in Yorkshire, to paint portraits of several of the family. The Thompsons had made a considerable fortune in"
"of Hertford bought about one-third for his own gallery. In 1829 Bicknell married Lucinda Browne, a sister of Hablot Knight Browne (aka Phiz, the illustrator of Dickens). He left a large family by his various marriages, and some his sons (one of whom married the only child of David Roberts, R.A.), in succeeding to his fortune, made names for themselves in the arts, archaeology, botany, travel, and reform. Elhanan Bicknell Elhanan Bicknell (21 December 1788–27 November 1861) was a successful London businessman and shipowner, He used his wealth as a patron of the arts, becoming one of the leading collectors"
"the British vice consul. He and his wife, Margaret, assisted Clarence in his work and provided a warm family environment that enriched his life in Italy. During long walks in the surrounding countryside, Bicknell noticed and admired the profusion of local wildflowers. He began to collect examples of each type, which he would later draw and paint, press and classify in a systematic manner. His expeditions took him further into the Maritime Alps, collecting an ever-increasing range of plants. By 1884 he had completed over one thousand watercolour paintings of wildflowers. Some 82 of these were redrawn into lithographic plates"
"Lady Mary Rennell Lady Mary Rennell (1901–1981), born Mary Constance Vivian Smith, was an English artist working mainly in pencil, chalk and oils. Mary Rennell was educated at home by private tutors, but at 17 she joined the Slade School of Fine Art as a part-time student while also, for several months, working as a ward maid for the war wounded before the Armistice on 11 November 1918. After leaving art school she shared a studio with Diana Walton in Kennington, London. She married Francis Rodd, the explorer and author, in 1928 and the couple went on to have four"
"not married, and her illegitimate status hindered her social standing despite her family connections. On 15 May 1759, she married James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave. The Earl Waldegrave died on 28 April 1763. They had three children: There is a portrait of Maria in 1764–65, shortly after she was widowed, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. She also commissioned him in 1780 to paint ""The Ladies Waldegrave"", a group portrait of her and Waldegrave's three daughters. On 6 September 1766 she married Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, at her home in Pall"
"Elhanan Bicknell Elhanan Bicknell (21 December 1788–27 November 1861) was a successful London businessman and shipowner, He used his wealth as a patron of the arts, becoming one of the leading collectors of contemporary British art of his time. Elhanan Bicknell was born 21 December 1788, in Blackman Street, London, the son of William Bicknell, serge manufacturer there, and of Elizabeth Bicknell, previously a Miss Randall, of Sevenoaks, Kent. His father attended John Wesley's school at Kingswood, Bristol, and entertained him in Blackman Street when he came to preach at Snow's Fields in Southwark. Another minister who was a family"
"Browning frequently visited Maria at Fredley to read her some of his and his wife's poetry. Maria died in 1891 and was buried in Mickleham churchyard. She left a self-portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds to her daughter, Emily Drummond, who eventually gave it to the National Gallery in London. The painting had originally been purchased by Richard Sharp from Hester Thrale for just over £128 in 1816. Her biography, ""Maria Drummond – A Sketch"" was written by the author/publisher, Charles Kegan Paul, at the request of two of her daughters. Maria Kinnaird Maria Kinnaird (1810–1891), born on St. Vincent, was"
"and Frederick Charles, who also painted portraits. Maria C. Hakewill Maria Catherine Hakewill ( Browne, died 1842) was a British painter and writer. She was born in the latter part of the 18th century. She married the architect James Hakewill, whom she accompanied to Italy, where they spent two years, 1816 and 1817. Her novel, ""Coelebs Suited; or, The Stanley Letters"" was published in 1812. Hakewill painted portraits and scenes in oil. She exhibited at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, and the Society of British Artists, between 1808 and 1838. She died at Calais in 1842. Children included the"
"1 September 1881 in Camberwell, Surrey. Challen's niece, Florence Mildred Saltmarsh Challen, was married to the organist and composer Henry Thomas Pringuer. Albert Charles Challen Albert Charles Challen (8 October 1847 – 1 September 1881) was a British artist. He is best known as the painter of a portrait of Mary Seacole in 1869, when she was around 65 years old. The rediscovery of the portrait was announced in January 2005, and it is held by the National Portrait Gallery. Born in Islington, the 1871 UK census shows Challen living in Hammersmith, with his profession given as ""art student (painting)""."
"Bern (1913). Bicknell and his siblings grew up in a mansion surrounded by his wealthy father's extensive art collection. He probably took art lessons at home or at school. He certainly received instruction in Italy where he took lessons with expatriate Belgian artist Jules Pierre van Biesbroeck. He became an accomplished artist with pen and watercolour, using his skill to sketch or paint his botanical subjects and, later, in creating decorative works with a botanical or archaeological theme. He illustrated his travel diaries, and, engravings of some of his artwork appear in his books. In 1886 Bicknell commissioned British architect"
"preacher. They married in 1930. This was a great shock to her parents, who had forbidden the subject of religion in their home. Her husband led her to be received into the Church of England, and the topic of faith came to run through much of her artistic work. Examples of his work can be seen in the collection of Lakeland Arts Trust at Abbot Hall Kendal and online; they are mostly Lake District landscapes in mid-20C British style, but one of Bowfell currently hanging at Blackwell House has striking cubist elements. The couple adopted two boys, and the family"
"attribution is accepted also by modern scholarship. It was supported soon after Bicknell's death, by William Seward, who knew Bicknell and introduced James Boswell to him, in 1786. It was endorsed by Francis Douce and John Thomas Smith. Seward also identified a number of short satirical pieces in newspapers, that had been attributed to George Steevens, to Bicknell. Bicknell on 16 April 1784 married, at St Philip's Church, Birmingham, Sabrina Sidney, the girl he had selected with Thomas Day at Shrewsbury about 15 years earlier. She had spent some time living with Bicknell's mother. After Day dropped his plan to"
"(for example, the Elgar, Sibelius, Bartók, Berg, Bloch and Walton concertos) – the sole exception seems to be the Pizzetti concerto. Her particular favourites were ""the three Bs"" – Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Her major recordings were issued in 1990 as ""The Art of Gioconda de Vito"". They include a Bach Double Violin Concerto with Yehudi Menuhin, conducted by Anthony Bernard. In 1949, she married a Briton, David Bicknell, an executive with EMI, and she lived in the UK from 1951, although her English was always rudimentary and she often needed a translator. Bicknell died in 1988, and Gioconda de"
"been in greater antithesis. She was always his most stimulating, severest critic, and he had the greatest respect for her opinion. She also was full of mischief and always did her best to shock him. They were married on 16 July 1903 at St. Mark's, Hampstead and honeymooned in North Wales. Their daughter, Barbara, was born in January 1908. She was a member of the International Society; her exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts in London included ""Lilla"" (1897), ""St. Cecilia"" (1898) and ""Pippa Passes"" (1899). Works by her were bought for the National Museum, Barcelona, where she won"
"was a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and died at Dover on 3 August 1845, aged 59. Bicknell married in 1809 Jane Willmott, eldest daughter of Thomas Willmott, at Shoreham, Kent. John Laurens Bicknell John Laurens Bicknell (c.1786–1845) was an English solicitor and author. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1821. He was the son of John Bicknell and his wife Sabrina Sidney. His name commemorated John Laurens, his father's friend, who died in 1782. He was educated at Charles Burney's school, where his mother worked, having been"
"in Britain and Italy. E. Bernadini, Le alpi marittime (1979), 142–8 A. N. Branghain, The naturalist's Riviera (1962) NHM, 92 BIC • BM, Bicknell corresp. D. Hawkins, ‘Labour of twelve summers’, Country Life, 173 (1983), 1112–16 H. Lumley and others, Les gravures rupestres de l'age de bronze dans le région de Mt. Bégo (1976) South European letters, 1901–1914, RBG Kew, 148 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Clarence Bicknell Clarence Bicknell (27 August 1842-17 July 1918) was a British vicar, amateur archaeologist, botanist, artist, Esperantist, author and philanthropist. He founded the Bicknell Museum in Bordighera, Italy. Also named after him is"
"The Spanish Wedding The Spanish Wedding or La Vicaria (1868-1870) is a masterwork by Marià Fortuny i Marsal, also known as Marià Fortuny or Mariano Fortuny. ""La Vicaria"" exemplifies genre painting of the 19th century. The use of jewel tones, contrasts between light and dark, and the virtuosity of the work attest to Fortuny’s talent. It resides at Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. Marià Fortuny (1838-1874), a Catalan and Spanish artist, was known during the 19th century for his oil paintings, etchings, and watercolors. Fortuny was a master artist of genre painting; these show scenes from everyday"
"Mary Pownall Mary Pownall (1862-1937) was a British sculptor. She was active from 1890 until 1937. She is particularly associated with Watford. Pownall was born in Leigh in Lancashire in 1862. In the 1890s she was living in Birkenhead. She studied in Frankfurt in 1896 and in Paris from 1897 to 1898 where she tutored by Auguste Rodin. She then studied in Rome from 1898 to 1901. In Rome she lived at 53b Via Margutta. In 1902 she married Alfred Bromet, a barrister, but she continued to use her maiden name for her work. From 1903 to 1931 they lived"
"men and women who had served in various branches of the armed forces in World War I. McCannell was the head of three generations of artists. His wife Winifred Cooper painted miniatures and they had one daughter, artist Ursula McCannell (1923-2015). McCannell taught art to his daughter at Farnham and she was extremely talented at an early age. At 16, she was the youngest member of the Women’s International Art Society and the youngest exhibitor at the Royal Academy. Ursula was married to artist Peter Rees Roberts who also taught with McCannell at Farnham and they had three sons (Tristan,"
"Maria Bell Lady Maria Bell (""née"" Hamilton; 26 December 17559 March 1825) was an English amateur painter. Maria Hamilton was born in Chelsea, London, the daughter of William Hamilton, an architect from a Scottish family, and his wife Sarah. She was the pupil of her brother William Hamilton, R.A. She received some instruction from Sir Joshua Reynolds, whose pictures she copied with much skill. She copied likewise the works of Rubens at Carlton House, among which was a 'Holy Family,' which was highly commended. Around 1808 she married Sir Thomas Bell (died 1824), sheriff of London, who was knighted in"
"great deal of time apart. By the time she was 36, in 1790, Elizabeth was showing signs of ill-health but had to maintain the appearance of an involvement with London society. While visiting Devonshire House Elizabeth met Lord Edward FitzGerald and they became lovers. She conceived a child by him, a baby girl who was born on 30 March 1792. The trauma of childbirth exacerbated Elizabeth's illness and she died of tuberculosis on 28 June 1792. The oil on canvas painting measures . The depiction of full-figure portraits in nature was a speciality of 18th-century English artists, especially Gainsborough who"
"the venture proved a complete failure, and in 1820 Hobday went bankrupt. In 1831, Hobday married Maria Pearce Ustonson (born Maria Pearce in Exeter in 1784). He died on 17 February of that same year. One of Hobday's sons was George Armfield Smith (1808–1893) who became a celebrated dog painter. His daughter, Harriet Eliza, married English composer Robert Lucas de Pearsall (1795–1856). Throughout his chequered career Hobday was a constant exhibitor at the Royal Academy, frequently contributing even during his residence at Bristol. In 1819 he exhibited there a portrait of the Duke of Sussex. His best work was a"