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William Stott, son of an Oldham mill owner, left for Paris in 1878, at the age of twenty, to train with the classical French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme. Adopting a Realist style of painting, Stott achieved rapid success, being medalled at the Paris Salon in 1882 for his painting The Bathing Place. He quickly became a hero figure among the British and American artists in Paris and was an influential member of the international colony of artists at Grez-sur-Loing, near Paris.
This book reveals an interesting and important artist whose best work has hardly been seen in public, and has hitherto never been photographed or published in colour. His pastels of Alpine peaks and glaciers, of torrents, of the sea, of beaches and of the simple countryside round his home in the village of Ravenglass in Cumbria will be a revelation, and the reconstruction of his career here achieved by Roger Brown is a significant contribution to the study of Symbolism and Impressionism.
Roger Brown has been researching the life and work of William Stott for the past six years. He also teaches in the Continuing Education department of the University of Reading.
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