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 Laurens Bicknell 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 left little to live on when his father died in 1787. In a successful legal career, Bicknell became solicitor to the Admiralty. He was Sir John Soane's solicitor from 1828, and an original trustee of the Soane Museum. He