William lamb picknell paintings
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BIOGRAPHY
“William Lamb Picknell was born in Hinesburg and lived in North Springfield, Vermont, from 1857 until 1867, when his father, a minister, died. He was then sent to live with guardians in Boston. In the early 1870s, he went to Europe, and for his first two years abroad he studied in Rome with the landscape painter George Inness. Later he spent two years in Jean-Léon Gérôme’s class at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Although his family and friends urged him to return to America after completing his studies, Picknell decided to remain abroad. In 1876, he joined the international art colony that had gathered around the Anglo-American painter Robert Wylie (1839-1877) in Pont-Aven, Brittany, and there his companions included Thomas Hovenden, Alexander Harrison, and Hugh Bolton Jones. Picknell learned Wylie's painting techniques, particularly his use of the palette knife.
“In 1880, he became a member of the Society of American Artists and also won an honorable mention for The Road to Concarneau, 1880 (Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) at the Paris Salon, where he had begun to exhibit four years earlier. Not long after, the Parisian dealer Goupil offered to purchase all the paintings Picknell could pro
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William Lamb Picknell
American painter (1853–1897)
William Lamb Picknell (October 23, 1853 – August 8, 1897) was an American painter of landscapes, coastal views, and figure genres, known for his rapid painting style. He was born in Hinesburg, Vermont and died in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
Life and career
[edit]Born in Hinesburg, Vermont, William was the son of Ellen Maria Upham and the Reverend William Lamb Picknell, a Baptist minister, both of New England families. William had a younger brother named George W. Picknell,[1] who was born in 1864. In July 1868, the summer following his father's death, the Picknell family moved to Chelsea, Massachusetts.[2]
He began his career by working in a frame shop while living with relatives in Boston, where he took lessons from George Loring Brown.[3] In 1872, he travelled to Europe where he trained with George Inness in Rome (alongside the master's son and Douglas Volk)[4] and Jean-Léon Gérôme in Paris (1874–75), and also received some informal training from Robert Wylie in Brittany.[5] Inspired by the gardens and artist colonies at Pont-Aven and Concarneau, Picknell and friend Hugh Bolton Jones founded a similar botanical artist's colony called "Squam" at Annisquam, Massachus
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Banks of rendering Loing
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Title:Banks care for the Loing
Artist:William Lamb Picknell (1853–1897)
Date:ca. 1894–97
Culture:American
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:58 1/4 x 83 weight. (148 x 210.8 cm)
Credit Line:Bequest adherent Mrs. Gertrude Flagg, 1905
Object Number:06.199
Signature: [at lower right]: W.L. Picknell
rendering artist, properly 1897; his wife, Gertrude (later Wife. Flagg), City, Massachusetts, 1897–died 1905; Domain of Gertrude Flagg, Xcl