Albion Harris Bicknell

American (1837-1915)

Painter and engraver Albion Harris Bicknell (1837-1915) was born in Turner, Maine and studied art in both Turner and Boston before traveling to the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he worked under noted teacher Thomas Couture. Following his return to Boston in 1857, Bicknell participated in exhibitions of the Boston Athenaeum, the National Academy of Design, and the Boston Art Club and became well known as a portraitist and history painter, but also received wide recognition for his still lifes. He maintained friendships with respected American painters John LaFarge and Elihu Vedder and painted portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Daniel Webster, among others. Today, his work is included in public collections throughout Maine and Massachusetts, as well as at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.