William Harry Warren Bicknell

1860-1947

American (Winchester, Massachusetts)

William Harry Warren Bicknell was a highly respected and versatile artist. A native of Boston, Bicknell attended the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School. Though achieving some early recognition as a portraitist, he preferred etching, in which field he won his greatest reknown. Bicknell etched a number of portraits, title pages for the Bibliophile Society of Boston, landscapes, and architectural views, many of Winchester and Provincetown. The most familiar local views are his illustrations for Henry Smith Chapman's History of Winchester.