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 William F. Paskell was born in London and moved to Boston in 1872 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 had
four children. In order to provide for his family, Paskell pushed his paintings on
the market faster then 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 were exhibited at the
Boston Art Club.
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