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"
Margaret Bicknell Margaret Bicknell Margaret Bicknell (1695?–1723) was a Scottish theatre actress and dancer. She was sister of Elizabeth Younger, an actress, who survived her some years. Younger informed Mrs. Saunders, a well-known actress who had for some years quitted the stage, that her father and mother, James and Margaret Younger, were born in Scotland. Bicknell's first known appearance was at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, located in London, England, on 20 August 1702. On 7 November 1706 we hear of Mrs. Bicknell playing, at the Haymarket Theatre, "Edging, a Chambermaid," in "The Careless Husband" of Cibber, her associates including Wilks, Cibber,