George W. Picknell (1864 - 1943) Oil on board, signed lower right, measures 10 x 8 and 12.5 x 10.5 inches w/frame. George W. Picknell was born in North Springfield, Vermont on June 26, 1864. A landscape specialist and brother of noted painter William Lamb Picknell, George Picknell became widely know for his renderings of Connecticut and rural France.Picknell lived in Boston, MA, for much of his boyhood and worked as an apprentice to a Boston engraver before he left for Paris in 1887 where he studied at the Julian Academy (Academie Julian) under Jules Lefebvre and Benjamin Constant from 1887 until 1890. On his return to the U.S., Picknell worked for some years as an illustrator in Boston and New York. Then he returned to Paris for about 15 years where he regularly exhibited his works of the French countryside at the Paris Salon and at important exhibitions in Nice and Toulouse.He was a founding member of the American Artists Association in Paris. He appears to have returned to the American in 1910 or 1911 and held a solo exhibition of his work at the John Herron Institute

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