Description: Fishing Boats at Dusk, watercolor, signed,
6.25" x 8.5" sight,
12.75"
x 15.25" framed.
Condition: Very good condition. Frame scuffed.
This little gem needs a new matte and frame
to show it off properly. It's
painted on
a brown paper and the matte is
also brown
or tan. The white mark to the
left of the
largest boat is light reflection.
Biography: This biography from the Archives of AskART:
William F. Paskell was born in
London and
moved to Boston in 1862 with
his family.
By the age of twenty-one he was
already mentioned
in the press as a very promising
artist,
with his paintings hanging beside
the work
of Childe Hassam and John J.
Enneking in
the annual Boston Art Club exhibitions.
Paskell married in 1900 and by
1905 he had
four children. In order to provide
for his
family, Paskell pushed his paintings
on the
market faster than the market
could absorb
them and thus depressed the prices
of his
own works. However, after years
of neglect
Paskell's paintings are gradually
earning
the respect they deserve.
Paskell started painting a fairly
tight style
of impressionism and gradually
reached a
loose impressionistic style before
World
War I. He told one of his grandchildren
that
to be best appreciated, his large
landscape
paintings had to be seen at twenty-five
feet
or more. Paskell painted up to
the day of
his death, dying in Boston in
1951 at the
age of eighty-five, in humble
circumstances.
He is considered one of the last
"White
Mountain School of Painters"
with a
connection to the 19th century.
He painted
both watercolors and oils.
His paintings exhibited at the
Boston Art
Club include CHOCORUA MOUNTAIN
-- TAMWORTH,
N.H.; THE BRIDGE AT WONALACET,
N.H.; and
THE SUMMIT OF MT. CHOCORUA.
Source:
Charles Vogel
Note: We have been advised by an authority on
William Paskell's work that this watercolor
was probably executed in the 1890s while
the artist was in England. The red sails
of the fishing boat are indicative of those
of the period along the coast of England
- the sails having been soaked in tannic
acid to prevent rotting. Red sails, such
as these are not noted on American marine
paintings.
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