"October on the Lynn Marshes": Heuschober auf den Lynn Marshes in Massachusetts. Öl auf Holz. 30 x 40,5 cm. Unten links signiert "G. W. Picknell" und verso mit einem alten Etikett der "Salmagundi Club Exhibition" bez. "Title: October on the Lynn Marshes / Artist: G. W. Picknell" sowie mit einem alten Zeitungsausschnitt von April 1944 mit Informationen zum Künstler. Unverkennbar sind in vorliegendem Werk die impressionistischen Einflüsse der französischen Schule, allen voran der Serie „Les Meules“, in der Claude Monet in den Jahren 1888/89 bis 1891 immer wieder Getreideschober auf den Feldern von Giverny zu unterschiedlichen Tages- und Jahreszeiten in seinen Bildern einfing. Picknell studierte von 1887 bis 1890 an der Académie Julian unter Jules Lefebvre und Benjamin Constant und reiste auch spätere immer wieder nach Paris. - Wir bitten darum, Zustandsberichte zu den Losen zu erfragen, da der Erhaltungszustand nur in Ausnahmefällen im Katalog angegeben ist. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalogue.
WILLIAM PICKNELL (American 1853-1897) A PAINTING, "Country Road," 19TH CENTURY, watercolor on paper, signed L/L, "W. Picknell;" 12 1/2" x 16 1/2", framed 22" x 26 1/4".
William Lamb Picknell (American, 1853-1897). "Horse Carriage in a Landscape" oil on canvas, 1893. Signed and dated at lower left. A captivating landscape painting by William Lamb Picknell. In this composition presenting a charming horse and carriage in the countryside, all is rendered with Picknell's vivid delineation of forms, precise perspective, and lush application of paint. Stylistically, the painting demonstrates Picknell's various influences ranging from Courbet's Realism to Inness' Tonalism to the Impressionists' light effects and loose brushwork. What's more, the theme reflects Picknell's love of nature which he shared with his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, colleagues of the Hudson River School, and Tonalist George Inness. A wonderful painting from Picknell whose career was tragically cut short when he died at age 43, mounted in an attractive custom frame. Size (sight view): 19.5" L x 28.5" W (49.5 cm x 72.4 cm) Of note: Despite the brevity of his life, Picknell managed to achieve great measures of success. He was the first American artist to win "honorable mention" for his landscape painting at the Paris Salon, and regularly exhibited at the National Academy of Design and the Society of American Artists in New York; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Royal Academy and Society of British Artists in England; and the French Salon. More about the artist: "Landscape painter William Lamb Picknell is especially famed for the quality of light in his plein-air painting, which was often glaringly intense, clear, and crisp. His inborn worship of nature was amply nourished by several American masters including esteemed Hudson River School and Tonalist painter George Inness, painter Robert Wylie, and Picknell's friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. Although Picknell did not associate himself with any one 'school' of art, he was at the heart of the American expatriate art scene. Picknell studied with Inness in Rome and with Wylie, who had been curator of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, in Pont-Aven, Brittany. In addition to the examples provided by these American expatriates, Picknell was exposed to the major trends in nineteenth-century French painting, and in particular was influenced by Courbet's realism. Born in Hinesburg, Vermont on October 23, 1853, Picknell was orphaned at the age of fourteen and went to live with family members in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He worked in a picture store on Tremont Street in Boston and in 1872 convinced an uncle to give him $1,000 towards art study in Europe. Encouraged by his family to pursue art, for which he had a penchant, he left Boston in 1872 and went to study with Inness for two formative years. With his Barbizon background and Swedenborgian pantheism, Inness struck a happy balance between Boston's Tonalist painters and Transcendentalist writers. Inness did not teach, but allowed Picknell to work in his studio and copy his paintings. After several years in Inness's studio, Picknell moved to France. In December 1874, he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts as a pupil of Jean-Leon Gerome. However, there is no evidence of his study at the Ecole beyond the spring term of 1875. Instead, his real education occurred at Pont-Aven (Finistere) and Concarneau, the Brittany villages he visited for the first time the summer of 1874. There he worked, in a mentor-student relationship, alongside Robert Wylie, who had known the great American artists Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, and Thomas Hovenden at the Pennsylvania Academy. Wylie taught him to use the palette knife and insisted on painting out-of-doors, surrounded by ones subject. Mlle. Julia, Wylie's lover and keeper of the Hotel des Voyageurs, supported Picknell financially. While Picknell spent the summer months at Pont-Aven, Concarneau, Grez-sur-Loing, and Moret-sur-Loing, he lived the rest of the year in Paris. In 1876, Picknell had his first painting accepted into the prestigious Paris Salon, and thereafter he exhibited at the Salon regularly throughout the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. In 1877 he also exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in London. However, his great success came at the 1880 Paris Salon, when La route de Concarneau (The Road to Concarneau) (Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.) achieved the first ever 'honorable mention' for an American landscape painter, assuring Picknell's future as an artist. The same year, he was elected to the Society of American Artists, a group of painters dedicated to impressionism, who had broken with the conservative National Academy of Design. Like the impressionist painters, Picknell was interested in capturing the color and light effects of different times of the day and seasons of the year. However, Picknell did not dissolve the forms in his paintings into pure light and color, but retained their sense of solidity. In addition, he did not diffuse the light in his paintings with hazy, atmospheric effects, but kept it crisp and fresh. Before returning to Massachusetts in the autumn of 1882, Picknell traveled to Venice, Tangiers, and England. Once back in America, he took up residence in the Boston area and opened a small studio there. Nevertheless, he continued to travel, spending summers from 1883-1891 painting at Annisquam on Cape Ann with other renowned American artists such as his friend Thomas Hovenden and Robert Vonnoh. Following his marriage to Marries Gertrude Powers in 1889, he also visited California and Provence in 1892-93 and Florida in 1894. In 1893 he returned to France, renting a house for four years at the Villa Hortensias outside Antibes, along the Cote d'Azur. In 1897, after the death of his son William Ford Picknell, Picknell returned to Massachusetts. At this time he was in poor health and died in early August, six months after his son, at the very young age of forty-three. He was immediately honored with two retrospectives at the Saint Louis Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." (source: Hollis Taggart Galleries) Provenance: private Monroe, Connecticut, USA collection All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #178848
**Originally Listed At $2500** William Lamb Picknell (American, 1853-1897). "Horse Carriage in a Landscape" oil on canvas, 1893. Signed and dated at lower left. A captivating landscape painting by William Lamb Picknell. In this composition presenting a charming horse and carriage in the countryside, all is rendered with Picknell's vivid delineation of forms, precise perspective, and lush application of paint. Stylistically, the painting demonstrates Picknell's various influences ranging from Courbet's Realism to Inness' Tonalism to the Impressionists' light effects and loose brushwork. What's more, the theme reflects Picknell's love of nature which he shared with his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, colleagues of the Hudson River School, and Tonalist George Inness. A wonderful painting from Picknell whose career was tragically cut short when he died at age 43, mounted in an attractive custom frame. Size (sight view): 19.5" L x 28.5" W (49.5 cm x 72.4 cm) Of note: Despite the brevity of his life, Picknell managed to achieve great measures of success. He was the first American artist to win "honorable mention" for his landscape painting at the Paris Salon, and regularly exhibited at the National Academy of Design and the Society of American Artists in New York; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Royal Academy and Society of British Artists in England; and the French Salon. More about the artist: "Landscape painter William Lamb Picknell is especially famed for the quality of light in his plein-air painting, which was often glaringly intense, clear, and crisp. His inborn worship of nature was amply nourished by several American masters including esteemed Hudson River School and Tonalist painter George Inness, painter Robert Wylie, and Picknell's friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. Although Picknell did not associate himself with any one 'school' of art, he was at the heart of the American expatriate art scene. Picknell studied with Inness in Rome and with Wylie, who had been curator of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, in Pont-Aven, Brittany. In addition to the examples provided by these American expatriates, Picknell was exposed to the major trends in nineteenth-century French painting, and in particular was influenced by Courbet's realism. Born in Hinesburg, Vermont on October 23, 1853, Picknell was orphaned at the age of fourteen and went to live with family members in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He worked in a picture store on Tremont Street in Boston and in 1872 convinced an uncle to give him $1,000 towards art study in Europe. Encouraged by his family to pursue art, for which he had a penchant, he left Boston in 1872 and went to study with Inness for two formative years. With his Barbizon background and Swedenborgian pantheism, Inness struck a happy balance between Boston's Tonalist painters and Transcendentalist writers. Inness did not teach, but allowed Picknell to work in his studio and copy his paintings. After several years in Inness's studio, Picknell moved to France. In December 1874, he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts as a pupil of Jean-Leon Gerome. However, there is no evidence of his study at the Ecole beyond the spring term of 1875. Instead, his real education occurred at Pont-Aven (Finistere) and Concarneau, the Brittany villages he visited for the first time the summer of 1874. There he worked, in a mentor-student relationship, alongside Robert Wylie, who had known the great American artists Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, and Thomas Hovenden at the Pennsylvania Academy. Wylie taught him to use the palette knife and insisted on painting out-of-doors, surrounded by ones subject. Mlle. Julia, Wylie's lover and keeper of the Hotel des Voyageurs, supported Picknell financially. While Picknell spent the summer months at Pont-Aven, Concarneau, Grez-sur-Loing, and Moret-sur-Loing, he lived the rest of the year in Paris. In 1876, Picknell had his first painting accepted into the prestigious Paris Salon, and thereafter he exhibited at the Salon regularly throughout the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. In 1877 he also exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in London. However, his great success came at the 1880 Paris Salon, when La route de Concarneau (The Road to Concarneau) (Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.) achieved the first ever 'honorable mention' for an American landscape painter, assuring Picknell's future as an artist. The same year, he was elected to the Society of American Artists, a group of painters dedicated to impressionism, who had broken with the conservative National Academy of Design. Like the impressionist painters, Picknell was interested in capturing the color and light effects of different times of the day and seasons of the year. However, Picknell did not dissolve the forms in his paintings into pure light and color, but retained their sense of solidity. In addition, he did not diffuse the light in his paintings with hazy, atmospheric effects, but kept it crisp and fresh. Before returning to Massachusetts in the autumn of 1882, Picknell traveled to Venice, Tangiers, and England. Once back in America, he took up residence in the Boston area and opened a small studio there. Nevertheless, he continued to travel, spending summers from 1883-1891 painting at Annisquam on Cape Ann with other renowned American artists such as his friend Thomas Hovenden and Robert Vonnoh. Following his marriage to Marries Gertrude Powers in 1889, he also visited California and Provence in 1892-93 and Florida in 1894. In 1893 he returned to France, renting a house for four years at the Villa Hortensias outside Antibes, along the Cote d'Azur. In 1897, after the death of his son William Ford Picknell, Picknell returned to Massachusetts. At this time he was in poor health and died in early August, six months after his son, at the very young age of forty-three. He was immediately honored with two retrospectives at the Saint Louis Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." (source: Hollis Taggart Galleries) Provenance: private Monroe, Connecticut, USA collection All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #178848
WILLIAM LAMB PICKNELL (American, 1853-1897). Landscape with two figures, Oil on canvas. Signed lower left hand corner. Framed. - 12 x 18 inches; frame: 18 x 24 inches
William Lamb Picknell (American, 1853-1897). "Horse Carriage in a Landscape" oil on canvas, 1893. Signed and dated at lower left. A captivating landscape painting by William Lamb Picknell. In this composition presenting a charming horse and carriage in the countryside, all is rendered with Picknell's vivid delineation of forms, precise perspective, and lush application of paint. Stylistically, the painting demonstrates Picknell's various influences ranging from Courbet's Realism to Inness' Tonalism to the Impressionists' light effects and loose brushwork. What's more, the theme reflects Picknell's love of nature which he shared with his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, colleagues of the Hudson River School, and Tonalist George Inness. A wonderful painting from Picknell whose career was tragically cut short when he died at age 43, mounted in an attractive custom frame. Size (sight view): 19.5" L x 28.5" W (49.5 cm x 72.4 cm) Of note: Despite the brevity of his life, Picknell managed to achieve great measures of success. He was the first American artist to win "honorable mention" for his landscape painting at the Paris Salon, and regularly exhibited at the National Academy of Design and the Society of American Artists in New York; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Royal Academy and Society of British Artists in England; and the French Salon. More about the artist: "Landscape painter William Lamb Picknell is especially famed for the quality of light in his plein-air painting, which was often glaringly intense, clear, and crisp. His inborn worship of nature was amply nourished by several American masters including esteemed Hudson River School and Tonalist painter George Inness, painter Robert Wylie, and Picknell's friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. Although Picknell did not associate himself with any one 'school' of art, he was at the heart of the American expatriate art scene. Picknell studied with Inness in Rome and with Wylie, who had been curator of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, in Pont-Aven, Brittany. In addition to the examples provided by these American expatriates, Picknell was exposed to the major trends in nineteenth-century French painting, and in particular was influenced by Courbet's realism. Born in Hinesburg, Vermont on October 23, 1853, Picknell was orphaned at the age of fourteen and went to live with family members in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He worked in a picture store on Tremont Street in Boston and in 1872 convinced an uncle to give him $1,000 towards art study in Europe. Encouraged by his family to pursue art, for which he had a penchant, he left Boston in 1872 and went to study with Inness for two formative years. With his Barbizon background and Swedenborgian pantheism, Inness struck a happy balance between Boston's Tonalist painters and Transcendentalist writers. Inness did not teach, but allowed Picknell to work in his studio and copy his paintings. After several years in Inness's studio, Picknell moved to France. In December 1874, he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts as a pupil of Jean-Leon Gerome. However, there is no evidence of his study at the Ecole beyond the spring term of 1875. Instead, his real education occurred at Pont-Aven (Finistere) and Concarneau, the Brittany villages he visited for the first time the summer of 1874. There he worked, in a mentor-student relationship, alongside Robert Wylie, who had known the great American artists Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, and Thomas Hovenden at the Pennsylvania Academy. Wylie taught him to use the palette knife and insisted on painting out-of-doors, surrounded by ones subject. Mlle. Julia, Wylie's lover and keeper of the Hotel des Voyageurs, supported Picknell financially. While Picknell spent the summer months at Pont-Aven, Concarneau, Grez-sur-Loing, and Moret-sur-Loing, he lived the rest of the year in Paris. In 1876, Picknell had his first painting accepted into the prestigious Paris Salon, and thereafter he exhibited at the Salon regularly throughout the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. In 1877 he also exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in London. However, his great success came at the 1880 Paris Salon, when La route de Concarneau (The Road to Concarneau) (Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.) achieved the first ever 'honorable mention' for an American landscape painter, assuring Picknell's future as an artist. The same year, he was elected to the Society of American Artists, a group of painters dedicated to impressionism, who had broken with the conservative National Academy of Design. Like the impressionist painters, Picknell was interested in capturing the color and light effects of different times of the day and seasons of the year. However, Picknell did not dissolve the forms in his paintings into pure light and color, but retained their sense of solidity. In addition, he did not diffuse the light in his paintings with hazy, atmospheric effects, but kept it crisp and fresh. Before returning to Massachusetts in the autumn of 1882, Picknell traveled to Venice, Tangiers, and England. Once back in America, he took up residence in the Boston area and opened a small studio there. Nevertheless, he continued to travel, spending summers from 1883-1891 painting at Annisquam on Cape Ann with other renowned American artists such as his friend Thomas Hovenden and Robert Vonnoh. Following his marriage to Marries Gertrude Powers in 1889, he also visited California and Provence in 1892-93 and Florida in 1894. In 1893 he returned to France, renting a house for four years at the Villa Hortensias outside Antibes, along the Cote d'Azur. In 1897, after the death of his son William Ford Picknell, Picknell returned to Massachusetts. At this time he was in poor health and died in early August, six months after his son, at the very young age of forty-three. He was immediately honored with two retrospectives at the Saint Louis Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." (source: Hollis Taggart Galleries) Provenance: private Monroe, Connecticut, USA collection All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #178848
William Lamb Picknell (American, 1853-1897). "Horse Carriage in a Landscape" oil on canvas, 1893. Signed and dated at lower left. A captivating landscape painting by William Lamb Picknell. In this composition presenting a charming horse and carriage in the countryside, all is rendered with Picknell's vivid delineation of forms, precise perspective, and lush application of paint. Stylistically, the painting demonstrates Picknell's various influences ranging from Courbet's Realism to Inness' Tonalism to the Impressionists' light effects and loose brushwork. What's more, the theme reflects Picknell's love of nature which he shared with his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, colleagues of the Hudson River School, and Tonalist George Inness. A wonderful painting from Picknell whose career was tragically cut short when he died at age 43, mounted in an attractive custom frame. Size (sight view): 19.5" L x 28.5" W (49.5 cm x 72.4 cm) Of note: Despite the brevity of his life, Picknell managed to achieve great measures of success. He was the first American artist to win "honorable mention" for his landscape painting at the Paris Salon, and regularly exhibited at the National Academy of Design and the Society of American Artists in New York; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Royal Academy and Society of British Artists in England; and the French Salon. More about the artist: "Landscape painter William Lamb Picknell is especially famed for the quality of light in his plein-air painting, which was often glaringly intense, clear, and crisp. His inborn worship of nature was amply nourished by several American masters including esteemed Hudson River School and Tonalist painter George Inness, painter Robert Wylie, and Picknell's friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. Although Picknell did not associate himself with any one 'school' of art, he was at the heart of the American expatriate art scene. Picknell studied with Inness in Rome and with Wylie, who had been curator of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, in Pont-Aven, Brittany. In addition to the examples provided by these American expatriates, Picknell was exposed to the major trends in nineteenth-century French painting, and in particular was influenced by Courbet's realism. Born in Hinesburg, Vermont on October 23, 1853, Picknell was orphaned at the age of fourteen and went to live with family members in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He worked in a picture store on Tremont Street in Boston and in 1872 convinced an uncle to give him $1,000 towards art study in Europe. Encouraged by his family to pursue art, for which he had a penchant, he left Boston in 1872 and went to study with Inness for two formative years. With his Barbizon background and Swedenborgian pantheism, Inness struck a happy balance between Boston's Tonalist painters and Transcendentalist writers. Inness did not teach, but allowed Picknell to work in his studio and copy his paintings. After several years in Inness's studio, Picknell moved to France. In December 1874, he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts as a pupil of Jean-Leon Gerome. However, there is no evidence of his study at the Ecole beyond the spring term of 1875. Instead, his real education occurred at Pont-Aven (Finistere) and Concarneau, the Brittany villages he visited for the first time the summer of 1874. There he worked, in a mentor-student relationship, alongside Robert Wylie, who had known the great American artists Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, and Thomas Hovenden at the Pennsylvania Academy. Wylie taught him to use the palette knife and insisted on painting out-of-doors, surrounded by ones subject. Mlle. Julia, Wylie's lover and keeper of the Hotel des Voyageurs, supported Picknell financially. While Picknell spent the summer months at Pont-Aven, Concarneau, Grez-sur-Loing, and Moret-sur-Loing, he lived the rest of the year in Paris. In 1876, Picknell had his first painting accepted into the prestigious Paris Salon, and thereafter he exhibited at the Salon regularly throughout the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. In 1877 he also exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in London. However, his great success came at the 1880 Paris Salon, when La route de Concarneau (The Road to Concarneau) (Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.) achieved the first ever 'honorable mention' for an American landscape painter, assuring Picknell's future as an artist. The same year, he was elected to the Society of American Artists, a group of painters dedicated to impressionism, who had broken with the conservative National Academy of Design. Like the impressionist painters, Picknell was interested in capturing the color and light effects of different times of the day and seasons of the year. However, Picknell did not dissolve the forms in his paintings into pure light and color, but retained their sense of solidity. In addition, he did not diffuse the light in his paintings with hazy, atmospheric effects, but kept it crisp and fresh. Before returning to Massachusetts in the autumn of 1882, Picknell traveled to Venice, Tangiers, and England. Once back in America, he took up residence in the Boston area and opened a small studio there. Nevertheless, he continued to travel, spending summers from 1883-1891 painting at Annisquam on Cape Ann with other renowned American artists such as his friend Thomas Hovenden and Robert Vonnoh. Following his marriage to Marries Gertrude Powers in 1889, he also visited California and Provence in 1892-93 and Florida in 1894. In 1893 he returned to France, renting a house for four years at the Villa Hortensias outside Antibes, along the Cote d'Azur. In 1897, after the death of his son William Ford Picknell, Picknell returned to Massachusetts. At this time he was in poor health and died in early August, six months after his son, at the very young age of forty-three. He was immediately honored with two retrospectives at the Saint Louis Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." (source: Hollis Taggart Galleries) Provenance: private Monroe, Connecticut, USA collection All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #178848
WILLIAM LAMB PICKNELL (American, 1853-1897). Landscape with two figures, Oil on canvas. Signed lower left hand corner. Framed. - 12 x 18 inches; frame: 18 x 24 inches
William Lamb Picknell (American, 1854-1897) - Spring in Pont-Aven Located and dated ‘Pont-Aven c. 1874’ bottom left, oil on canvas 22 x 20 ¼ in. (55.9 x 51.4cm) Provenance Childs Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. Private Collection, Maryland. Exhibition "William Lamb Picknell, 1853-1897," Taggart and Jorgensen Gallery, Washington, D.C., November 7-December 7, 1991, no 2. Literature Hollis Taggart et al., William Lamb Picknell, 1853-1897, Taggart and Jorgensen Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1991, p. 40, no. 2 (illustrated). Lot Essay The present work was most likely the first painting Picknell executed in Pont-Aven, a small village in Brittany, France, which he first visited in 1874. Delicately handled and with a fresh palette, the work embodies the strong influence George Inness's work (especially his Italian vistas) had on the artist at the time.
William Lamb Picknell (American, 1853-1897). "Horse Carriage in a Landscape" oil on canvas, 1893. Signed and dated at lower left. A captivating landscape painting by William Lamb Picknell. In this composition presenting a charming horse and carriage in the countryside, all is rendered with Picknell's vivid delineation of forms, precise perspective, and lush application of paint. Stylistically, the painting demonstrates Picknell's various influences ranging from Courbet's Realism to Inness' Tonalism to the Impressionists' light effects and loose brushwork. What's more, the theme reflects Picknell's love of nature which he shared with his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, colleagues of the Hudson River School, and Tonalist George Inness. A wonderful painting from Picknell whose career was tragically cut short when he died at age 43, mounted in an attractive custom frame. Size (sight view): 19.5" L x 28.5" W (49.5 cm x 72.4 cm) Of note: Despite the brevity of his life, Picknell managed to achieve great measures of success. He was the first American artist to win "honorable mention" for his landscape painting at the Paris Salon, and regularly exhibited at the National Academy of Design and the Society of American Artists in New York; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Royal Academy and Society of British Artists in England; and the French Salon. More about the artist: "Landscape painter William Lamb Picknell is especially famed for the quality of light in his plein-air painting, which was often glaringly intense, clear, and crisp. His inborn worship of nature was amply nourished by several American masters including esteemed Hudson River School and Tonalist painter George Inness, painter Robert Wylie, and Picknell's friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. Although Picknell did not associate himself with any one 'school' of art, he was at the heart of the American expatriate art scene. Picknell studied with Inness in Rome and with Wylie, who had been curator of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, in Pont-Aven, Brittany. In addition to the examples provided by these American expatriates, Picknell was exposed to the major trends in nineteenth-century French painting, and in particular was influenced by Courbet's realism. Born in Hinesburg, Vermont on October 23, 1853, Picknell was orphaned at the age of fourteen and went to live with family members in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He worked in a picture store on Tremont Street in Boston and in 1872 convinced an uncle to give him $1,000 towards art study in Europe. Encouraged by his family to pursue art, for which he had a penchant, he left Boston in 1872 and went to study with Inness for two formative years. With his Barbizon background and Swedenborgian pantheism, Inness struck a happy balance between Boston's Tonalist painters and Transcendentalist writers. Inness did not teach, but allowed Picknell to work in his studio and copy his paintings. After several years in Inness's studio, Picknell moved to France. In December 1874, he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts as a pupil of Jean-Leon Gerome. However, there is no evidence of his study at the Ecole beyond the spring term of 1875. Instead, his real education occurred at Pont-Aven (Finistere) and Concarneau, the Brittany villages he visited for the first time the summer of 1874. There he worked, in a mentor-student relationship, alongside Robert Wylie, who had known the great American artists Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, and Thomas Hovenden at the Pennsylvania Academy. Wylie taught him to use the palette knife and insisted on painting out-of-doors, surrounded by ones subject. Mlle. Julia, Wylie's lover and keeper of the Hotel des Voyageurs, supported Picknell financially. While Picknell spent the summer months at Pont-Aven, Concarneau, Grez-sur-Loing, and Moret-sur-Loing, he lived the rest of the year in Paris. In 1876, Picknell had his first painting accepted into the prestigious Paris Salon, and thereafter he exhibited at the Salon regularly throughout the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. In 1877 he also exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in London. However, his great success came at the 1880 Paris Salon, when La route de Concarneau (The Road to Concarneau) (Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.) achieved the first ever 'honorable mention' for an American landscape painter, assuring Picknell's future as an artist. The same year, he was elected to the Society of American Artists, a group of painters dedicated to impressionism, who had broken with the conservative National Academy of Design. Like the impressionist painters, Picknell was interested in capturing the color and light effects of different times of the day and seasons of the year. However, Picknell did not dissolve the forms in his paintings into pure light and color, but retained their sense of solidity. In addition, he did not diffuse the light in his paintings with hazy, atmospheric effects, but kept it crisp and fresh. Before returning to Massachusetts in the autumn of 1882, Picknell traveled to Venice, Tangiers, and England. Once back in America, he took up residence in the Boston area and opened a small studio there. Nevertheless, he continued to travel, spending summers from 1883-1891 painting at Annisquam on Cape Ann with other renowned American artists such as his friend Thomas Hovenden and Robert Vonnoh. Following his marriage to Marries Gertrude Powers in 1889, he also visited California and Provence in 1892-93 and Florida in 1894. In 1893 he returned to France, renting a house for four years at the Villa Hortensias outside Antibes, along the Cote d'Azur. In 1897, after the death of his son William Ford Picknell, Picknell returned to Massachusetts. At this time he was in poor health and died in early August, six months after his son, at the very young age of forty-three. He was immediately honored with two retrospectives at the Saint Louis Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." (source: Hollis Taggart Galleries) Provenance: private Monroe, Connecticut, USA collection All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #178848
William Lamb Picknell (American, 1853-1897). "Horse Carriage in a Landscape" oil on canvas, 1893. Signed and dated at lower left. A captivating landscape painting by William Lamb Picknell. In this composition presenting a charming horse and carriage in the countryside, all is rendered with Picknell's vivid delineation of forms, precise perspective, and lush application of paint. Stylistically, the painting demonstrates Picknell's various influences ranging from Courbet's Realism to Inness' Tonalism to the Impressionists' light effects and loose brushwork. What's more, the theme reflects Picknell's love of nature which he shared with his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, colleagues of the Hudson River School, and Tonalist George Inness. A wonderful painting from Picknell whose career was tragically cut short when he died at age 43, mounted in an attractive custom frame. Size (sight view): 19.5" L x 28.5" W (49.5 cm x 72.4 cm) Of note: Despite the brevity of his life, Picknell managed to achieve great measures of success. He was the first American artist to win "honorable mention" for his landscape painting at the Paris Salon, and regularly exhibited at the National Academy of Design and the Society of American Artists in New York; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Royal Academy and Society of British Artists in England; and the French Salon. More about the artist: "Landscape painter William Lamb Picknell is especially famed for the quality of light in his plein-air painting, which was often glaringly intense, clear, and crisp. His inborn worship of nature was amply nourished by several American masters including esteemed Hudson River School and Tonalist painter George Inness, painter Robert Wylie, and Picknell's friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. Although Picknell did not associate himself with any one 'school' of art, he was at the heart of the American expatriate art scene. Picknell studied with Inness in Rome and with Wylie, who had been curator of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, in Pont-Aven, Brittany. In addition to the examples provided by these American expatriates, Picknell was exposed to the major trends in nineteenth-century French painting, and in particular was influenced by Courbet's realism. Born in Hinesburg, Vermont on October 23, 1853, Picknell was orphaned at the age of fourteen and went to live with family members in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He worked in a picture store on Tremont Street in Boston and in 1872 convinced an uncle to give him $1,000 towards art study in Europe. Encouraged by his family to pursue art, for which he had a penchant, he left Boston in 1872 and went to study with Inness for two formative years. With his Barbizon background and Swedenborgian pantheism, Inness struck a happy balance between Boston's Tonalist painters and Transcendentalist writers. Inness did not teach, but allowed Picknell to work in his studio and copy his paintings. After several years in Inness's studio, Picknell moved to France. In December 1874, he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts as a pupil of Jean-Leon Gerome. However, there is no evidence of his study at the Ecole beyond the spring term of 1875. Instead, his real education occurred at Pont-Aven (Finistere) and Concarneau, the Brittany villages he visited for the first time the summer of 1874. There he worked, in a mentor-student relationship, alongside Robert Wylie, who had known the great American artists Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, and Thomas Hovenden at the Pennsylvania Academy. Wylie taught him to use the palette knife and insisted on painting out-of-doors, surrounded by ones subject. Mlle. Julia, Wylie's lover and keeper of the Hotel des Voyageurs, supported Picknell financially. While Picknell spent the summer months at Pont-Aven, Concarneau, Grez-sur-Loing, and Moret-sur-Loing, he lived the rest of the year in Paris. In 1876, Picknell had his first painting accepted into the prestigious Paris Salon, and thereafter he exhibited at the Salon regularly throughout the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. In 1877 he also exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in London. However, his great success came at the 1880 Paris Salon, when La route de Concarneau (The Road to Concarneau) (Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.) achieved the first ever 'honorable mention' for an American landscape painter, assuring Picknell's future as an artist. The same year, he was elected to the Society of American Artists, a group of painters dedicated to impressionism, who had broken with the conservative National Academy of Design. Like the impressionist painters, Picknell was interested in capturing the color and light effects of different times of the day and seasons of the year. However, Picknell did not dissolve the forms in his paintings into pure light and color, but retained their sense of solidity. In addition, he did not diffuse the light in his paintings with hazy, atmospheric effects, but kept it crisp and fresh. Before returning to Massachusetts in the autumn of 1882, Picknell traveled to Venice, Tangiers, and England. Once back in America, he took up residence in the Boston area and opened a small studio there. Nevertheless, he continued to travel, spending summers from 1883-1891 painting at Annisquam on Cape Ann with other renowned American artists such as his friend Thomas Hovenden and Robert Vonnoh. Following his marriage to Marries Gertrude Powers in 1889, he also visited California and Provence in 1892-93 and Florida in 1894. In 1893 he returned to France, renting a house for four years at the Villa Hortensias outside Antibes, along the Cote d'Azur. In 1897, after the death of his son William Ford Picknell, Picknell returned to Massachusetts. At this time he was in poor health and died in early August, six months after his son, at the very young age of forty-three. He was immediately honored with two retrospectives at the Saint Louis Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." (source: Hollis Taggart Galleries) Provenance: private Monroe, Connecticut, USA collection All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #178848
William Lamp Picknell American, 1853-1897 Lavoir a Pont-Aven Signed W. L. Picknell (lr) Oil on panel 39 7/8 x 27 3/8 inches (101.3 x 69.5 cm) Exhibited: Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Americans in Brittany and Normandy, 1860-1910, Sep. 24 - Nov. 28, 1982; Traveling to Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum, Dec. 16, 1982-Feb. 6. 1983 then to Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Art Museum, Mar. 18-May 1, 1983 then to Washington DC, National Museum of American Art, Jun. 10-Aug. 14, 1983 Pont-Aven, FR, Musee de Pont-Aven, Pientres Americains en Bretagne, 1995 C
William Lamb Picknell (American, 1854-1897) Old Town Antibes oil on canvas 75.5 x 91.5cm (29 3/4 x 36in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Picknell, George W. 1864 North Springfield, Vermont - 1943 Silvermine, Connecticut Weite Landschaft mit Windmühle. Signiert. Undeutlich bezeichnet. Öl/Lwd., 60 x 46 cm.
William Lamb Picknell (American, 1853-1897) The Opium Den signed and dated 'W. L. Picknell. 1881.' (lower right) oil on canvas 251⁄2 x 32 in. (64.9 x 81.3 cm.)
William Lamb Picknell (1853-1897) Pont Aven signed, inscribed and dated 'Wm.L Picknell/Pont Aven/1876' (lower right) oil on canvas 25 ½ x 32 ¼ in. (64.9 x 82 cm.)
Artist: WILLIAM L. PICKNELL (American, 1853-1897)Condition: With original surface, no repair or restoration. Frame with gilt losses proper left side. Frame: Molded gilt wood frameMedium: Oil on canvasSignature: Signed Lower Right "Wm. L. Picknell"Title: PASTORAL LANDSCAPEWork Size: 12" x 18" Condition: Dimensions: Framed: 16 -3/4" x 22 -3/4".
Artist: WILLIAM L. PICKNELL (American, 1853-1897) Condition: With original surface, no repair or restoration. Frame with gilt losses proper left side. Frame: Molded old wood frame. Medium: Oil on canvas. Signature: Signed Lower Right "Wm. L. Picknell" Title: PASTORAL LANDSCAPE Work Size: 12" x 18" Condition: Item Dimensions: Framed: 16 -3/4" x 22 -3/4".
William Picknell (American, 1853-1897) "Coast of France" - late 19th century Oil on canvas mounted on board Signed to lower right, with Christie's label, DeVant Crissey Conservation label, and old gallery label to verso Approx. 42.75" x 54.5"
ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM LAMB PICKNELL Massachusetts/California/Vermont/France, 1853-1897 "View of Old Moret". Unsigned. Titled lower right. Provenance: Private Collection, Massachusetts. Watercolor on paper laid down on board, 19.5" x 14" sight. Framed.
WILLIAM LAMB PICKNELL (American 1853-1897) A PAINTING, "Landscape with Dog," oil on canvas, signed L/R. 11 1/2" x 17 1/2" NOTE: Born in Hinesburg, VT on Oct. 23, 1853. William Lamb Picknell studied with George Inness in Rome and at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. While based in Massachusetts, he was constantly on the move. Several extended trips were made to Europe in search of subject matter and to exhibit. He traveled to California in early 1892 and spent one year there during which time he became seriously ill of a lung disease. Returning to the East Coast, he died in Marblehead, MA on Aug. 8, 1897. He was a member of Society of American Artists and Royal Society of British Artists. Selected exhibitions included the Paris Salon, 1876, 1880, 1895; Royal Academy (London), 1877; World's Columbian Expo (Chicago), 1893; Atlanta Expo, 1895. Picknell's works are found in the Cleveland Museum; Fogg Museum (Harvard); French National Collection; Boston Museum, and Phoenix Museum. Source: Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes
Impasto technique, signed lower left, canvas measures 29.5 x 35.5, frame measures 38.4 x 44.5 inches. Probably a French landscape. Note the early automobile under the trees left side.
Oil on canvas. Housed in a period carved giltwood frame. Signed lower right "Wm. L. Picknell" SIZE: 17" x 24". Overall: 24-14" x 32" CONDITION: Very good 50004-2
ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM LAMB PICKNELL American, 1853-1897 View of Old Moret. Unsigned. Titled lower right. Provenance: Private Collection, Massachusetts. Watercolor on paper laid down on board, 19.5" x 14" sight. Framed.
WILLIAM LAMB PICKNELL (american 1853-1897)/span MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE WITH COACH Signed 'W. L. Picknell' bottom left, oil on canvas 24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4cm) provenance: /spanPrivate Collection, Connecticut. Doyle, New York, New York, sale of October 1987. Private Collection, New Jersey. note:/span A plein-air painter, Picknell grew up in New England but traveled extensively, including a two year stay in Rome, studying under George Inness. Picknell primarily painted landscapes. Like his most famous works, The Road to Concarneau in the Corcoran Gallery and The Banks of the Loing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Mountain Landscape With Coach" features the same low horizon line and deep recession of space, accentuated by a dirt road.
Landscape, oil on canvas board, 10" x 14", signed lower right W.L. Picknell, Frost & Adams, Boston, artists materials label on verso From the Cloverbrook Estate
William Lamb Picknell (American, 1854-1897) Fisherman on Shore Signed, inscribed, and dated "-W.L. Picknell./Bretagne/1886." l.r. Oil on canvas, 15 x 21 in. (38.1 x 53.3 cm), framed. Condition: Craquelure, lined, retouch.
Watercolor on paper Housed in a 1930's frame with mat behind glass with some wear Unsigned, inscribed with title, lower right SIZE: 19-1/4" x 14". Overall: 27" x 21". CONDITION: Good. 7-70117
William Lamb Picknell American, 1853-1897 The Old Towers, Antibes, circa 1893-97 Signed Wm L. Picknell (lr) Oil on canvas 35 1/2 x 29 3/4 inches Provenance: By descent in the family until 2007 C
