oil on canvas, signed, inscribed, and dated in lower right W.L. Picknell Pont Aven 1876. Scene portrays an elderly woman with a cane and wearing a red cloak carrying a bundle of sticks down a dirt road with a dark and somewhat ominous forest looming behind her. 16 x 21.25" (sight) in frame, 22.5 x 27.5". William Lamb Picknell (1853-1899), born in Vermont, lived in Boston, attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and then moved to an artists' colony on the Brittany coast. He exhibited in Paris in 1876 which spurred him to a successful career as an artist. He returned to Boston in the 1880s where he died in 1899. He was a member of Society of American Artists, Society of British Artists, and the National Academy. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Musees de France. Provenance:Ex Collection Robert and Marge Piper Condition:Reframed; else VG.
oil on canvas, signed, inscribed, and dated in lower right W.L. Picknell Pont Aven 1876. Scene portrays an elderly woman with a cane and wearing a red cloak carrying a bundle of sticks down a dirt road with a dark and somewhat ominous forest looming behind her. 16 x 21.25" (sight) in frame, 22.5 x 27.5". William Lamb Picknell (1853-1899), born in Vermont, lived in Boston, attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and then moved to an artists' colony on the Brittany coast. He exhibited in Paris in 1876 which spurred him to a successful career as an artist. He returned to Boston in the 1880s where he died in 1899. He was a member of Society of American Artists, Society of British Artists, and the National Academy. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Musees de France. Provenance:Ex Collection Robert and Marge Piper Condition:Reframed; else VG.
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