William Stott
Painting, Visual Artist
1857 – 1900
Who was William Stott?
William Stott, was a painter born in Oldham, Lancashire, England.
He was the son of an Oldham cotton mill owner. After studying in Oldham and Manchester he went to Paris and studied under the French painter, Jean-Léon Gérôme and achieved rapid success, exhibiting regularly at the Paris Salon. He was an influential member of the artists' colony at Grez-sur-Loing which was full of English, Irish, Scottish and American artists. In 1889 he held a one-man show at the Durand-Ruel Gallery, famous for its showing of the French Impressionists. On his return to England he became a follower and close friend of the painter Whistler, until his painting of Whistler's mistress depicted naked as 'Venus Born of the Sea Foam' caused a rift between them.
For much of his career, Stott painted landscapes, but during the late 1880s began to move towards pictures involving classical figures and allegorical themes, such as ‘The Nymph’ of 1886, and ‘The Birth of Venus’ of 1887. He worked in oils, watercolours and pastels, a medium appropriate to his atmospheric post Impressionistic style.
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- Born
- 1857
Oldham - Also known as
- William Stott-of-Oldham
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Died
- 1900
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on July 23, 2013
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