Incomparable Scenery
Comparative Views in the White Mountains

The Belknap Mill Society
Sunday, August 15, 1999 through Thursday, September 30, 1999
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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 works of Childe Hassam and John J. Enneking in the annual Boston Art Club exhibitions.  Paskell married in 1900 and by 1905 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 humble circumstances in Boston in 1951 at the age of eighty-five.  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.

Three of his paintings are represented in this exhibition -- an early painting of Mount Chocorua and the wonderful paired paintings of Mount Kearsarge.

The Exhibition
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