ARTIST: Frank Alfred Bicknell (Connecticut, Maine, 1866 - 1943)
TITLE: Country Landscape
YEAR: 1885
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: One small patch. Few minor paint losses. Some craquelure. Some scattered inpaintings.
ART SIZE: 18 x 26 inches / 45 x 66 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available)
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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SKU#: 125763
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BIOGRAPHY:
A prominent resident of Old Lyme, Connecticut, Frank Bicknell remains a bit of a mystery in that no photograph of him has been located, but he was a popular figure in the Colony. However, his accomplishments as an artist are not highly recognized.He was born in Augusta, Maine and studied art in Malden, Massachusetts with Albion Bicknell, likely a relative. At the age of 21 (1887), he exhibited at the National Academy of Design and then moved to New York City. By 1893, he was studying in Paris at the Academie Julian with Robert Fleury and William Bouguereau.Between 1910 and 1920, Bicknell fully occupied his role as a leading member of the American art community. He was named an associate of the National Academy and was an influential member of the Salmagundi, Lotos, and National Arts clubs. While in New York, Bicknell regularly entertained other artists, including Carleton Wiggins, Gifford Beal, and Leonard Ochtmann, and his exhibition schedule greatly increased. At the heightof his power, Bicknell was among the most significant and widely-known landscape painters in the country.From 1919 to 1925, Bicknell served as an associate professor at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University. While in Pittsburgh he enjoyed a close relationship with Charles Graham Gibbs, the only subject known to have sat for a portrait by Bicknell. The artist eventually returned to Old Lyme where he stayed in the Cohen house until too infirm to live on his own. He moved to a retirement home in nearby Essex, where he died in 1943.