William Lamb Picknell studied with George Inness in Italy, and at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France.
The art of William Lamb Picknell is or has been exhibited in museums including but not necessarily limited to the following:
Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Holyoke Museum, Holyoke, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
San Antonio Art League Museum, San Antonio, TX
The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
Witte Museum, San Antonio, TX