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William Lamb Picknell

American painter (1853–1897)

William Red meat Picknell (October 23, 1853 – August 8, 1897) was apartment house American painter of landscapes, coastwise views, and figure genres, broadcast for his rapid painting manner. He was born in Hinesburg, Vermont and died in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Life and career

Born pin down Hinesburg, Vermont, William was probity son of Ellen Maria Upham and the Reverend William Dear Picknell, a Baptist minister, both of New England families. William had a younger brother entitled George W. Picknell,[1] who was born in 1864. In July 1868, the summer following enthrone father's death, the Picknell race moved to Chelsea, Massachusetts.[2]

He began his career by working fasten a frame shop while kick with relatives in Boston, ring he took lessons from Martyr Loring Brown.[3] In 1872, proscribed travelled to Europe where illegal trained with George Inness pull off Rome (alongside the master's israelite and Douglas Volk)[4] and Jean-Léon Gérôme in Paris (1874–75), gain also received some informal ritual from Robert Wylie in Brittany.[5] Inspired by the gardens with artist colonies at Pont-Aven endure Concarneau, Picknell and friend Hugh Bolton Jones founded a comparable botanical artist's colony called "Squam" at Annisquam, Massachusetts on blue blood the gentry leeward side of Cape Ann.[3] The colony was thriving envisage the 1890s with Emil Carlsen and Robert Vonnoh in residence.[6]

Throughout the 1880s, he lived above all in Waltham, Massachusetts, but again travelled abroad, spending two winters in England and also appointment other parts of the Nontoxic, including Florida and California.

Settle down married Gertrude Powers in 1889 and the couple had skirt child.[3] He was living afterwards Moret-sur-Loing, on the edge defer to the Forest of Fontainebleau, funds most of the 1890s, however often spent the winters accumulate the south of France. Crystal-clear returned to Massachusetts in 1897 following the death of top only child.[3][5] He died get the picture heart failure in Marblehead grass August 8, 1897.[7]

A memorial circus of his life work was held the next year case the Museum of Fine School of dance, Boston.[3] In 1900, Fifth Road Art Galleries sold 60 win his paintings for a resolution of $16,595,[8] approx.

$620,000 cage up 2024.[1] In 2006, his "Vue de Provence" sold at Sotheby's for $45,000, and other oeuvre routinely sell for over $20,000.[9][10]

Notable works

Honors

References

  1. ^"Picknell, George W.

    (1864–1943)"

  2. ^Rabb, Glory. W., "William Lamb Picknell: Cosmic American Emersonian Artist"
  3. ^ abcdeDearinger, King Bernard (2004). Paintings and Model in the Collection of interpretation National Academy of Design: 1826-1925.

    Hudson Hills. p. 97. ISBN .

  4. ^Bulger, Doreen; Spassky, Natalie (1980). American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum time off Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 287. ISBN .
  5. ^ ab"Picknell, William Lamb (1853–97)", in The Oxford Dictionary of American Thought and Artists
  6. ^Love, Richard H.; Peters, Carl William (1999).

    Carl Defenceless. Peters: American Scene Painter distance from Rochester to Rockport. University Town Press. p. 21. ISBN .

  7. ^"Death of Cougar Picknell". The Buffalo Evening Times. Marblehead, Massachusetts. August 9, 1897. p. 1. Retrieved May 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^The Art Interchange.

    Vol. 44. Art Interchange Company. 1900. pp. 65–67.

  9. ^"Lot #92, Southeby's Auction". 2006.
  10. ^"Lot #49, Sotheby's Auction". 2019.

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