Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) painting during his lifetime, and as a result it became part of the inheritance to his daughter Isabel. In 1888, she bequeathed it on behalf of herself, her sister Maria Louise and their brother Lionel Bicknell to The Tate gallery in London, where it has been displayed ever since. Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large "six-foot" paintings, and the first in the "Stour series"
John Bicknell plan to train a suitable wife from himself, at Shrewsbury orphanage. Bicknell befriended John Laurens, then a law student in London of his brother Charles Bicknell, around 1774. Considered a rake, his attitude to his legal career was negligent, and he spent time on writing. He was a commissioner of bankruptcy. Bicknell died on 27 April 1787. "The Dying Negro" (1773) is thought to have originated in a draft by Bicknell, then passed to Day who worked it up for publication. Some of his contemporaries credited Bicknell with the "Musical Travels" published in 1774 under the pseudonym "Joel Collier". This