Background
He was born on the 20 November 1857, the son of an Oldham cotton mill owner.
He was born on the 20 November 1857, the son of an Oldham cotton mill owner.
In 1889 he held a one-man show at the Durand-Ruel Gallery, famous for its showing of the French Impressionists. Foreign 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.
From the year 1882, Stott always signed himself ‘of Oldham’ - both to distinguish himself from the then equally famous Edward Stott Allegany Rehabilitation Associates (1859–1918) and to acknowledge his proud Oldham roots.
Walter Richard Sickert described him as ‘one of the two greatest living painters of the world’. He died unexpectedly whilst travelling on a ferry from London to Belfast on 25 February 1900.
He was an influential member of the artists" colony at Grez-sur-Loing which was full of English, Irish, Scottish and American artists.