William Stott (artist)

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William Stott (1857 – 1900) was a British 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 where he achieved rapid success, exhibiting regularly at the Paris Salon.

For much of his career, Stott painted impressionist landscapes, but during the late 1880’s began to move towards pictures involving classical figures and allegorical themes, such as ‘The Nymph’ of 1886, and ‘The Birth of Venus’ of 1887.

From the year 1882, Stott always signed himself ‘of Oldham’ - said to be an allusion to his proud Oldham roots.

Walter Richard Sickert described him as ‘one of the two greatest living painters of the world’.