Great Masters

Wickenden was born in Rochester and expressed his talent at an early age as a painter after studying art in his native town.

He then visited the U.S and studied in New York under Caroll Beckwith and Chase before going in 1883 to Paris where he worked in the studios of E. Hbert and L.O Merson.

He exhibited two paintings at the Paris Salon in 1884 and returned to New York in 1885. The following year he took part in an exhibition held at the French and Dudley Galleries and exhibited once again in the Paris Salons in 1888,1889 and 1890.

Wickenden also produced lithographs and exhibited his prints at the Paris Salons of 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1899 and 1900 as well as in Munich in 1888, Chicago in 1893, Lyons in 1894 and Antwerp in 1895.

His trip to Canada in 1896 had much influence over his career as he started to paint the portraits of many Canadian personalities and produced several paintings representing rustic scenes in the British Dominion.

He settled in the U.S and returned to Europe in 1911to paint the portrait of King Edward 7th for the government of Nova Scotia. While painting this portrait, which made him much famous in England, Wickenden was much inspired by some great English portrait painters as well as by Van Dyck.