DOI Heft:
No. 32 (November, 1895)
DOI Artikel:Little, James Stanley: On the work of Edward Stott
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17295#0086
The Work of Edward Stott
the second year a work of his was accepted at
Burlington House and placed on the line. He
had also sold several little things privately. But
the third year of his stay in the French capital he
was rejected at the Academy. It may be men-
tioned here parenthetically that since that time
Stott has sometimes, as in this year, been re-
jected by the Academy outright, and when ac-
cepted has always been far from the line, and
often hopelessly cornered. These coming in-
pictures to the Academy, but they were summarily
rejected. But at the Grosvenor Gallery and the
New English Art Club, and afterwards at the
New Gallery, he was offered the hospitality denied
him by the institution to which, in common with
all young men of genius, he had the right to
look upon as his natural mother. At the first
exhibition of the New Gallery he had two pictures
on the line ; one of them sold at this time and the
other subsequently. In 1889 he associated him-
dignities were, however, happily concealed from the
young painter in the inscrutable womb of the future.
He had already enough of actual trouble and
anxiety for his portion. All outside help was with-
drawn from him, and he had to make his living
entirely by his brush. Of the difficulties of these
days Mr. Stott is becomingly reticent, but a little
imagination will suffice to suggest some of them.
A crumb of comfort fell to him when a picture of
his was hung on the line at the Royal Institute,
and found a purchaser. The next year he sent two
self with the New English Art Club, with the
original aims of which body he has been in
sympathy throughout, though he has not been an
active member of the club. Since 1889 Stott has
been chiefly seen at the New Gallery and New
English Art Club, if we except one or two works
which can scarcely be said to have been seen—
they were skyed and cornered at the—Academy.
To enter more in detail into the various pictures
which have won for Mr. Stott the high position
he now holds, I will pass over his earlier efforts
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the second year a work of his was accepted at
Burlington House and placed on the line. He
had also sold several little things privately. But
the third year of his stay in the French capital he
was rejected at the Academy. It may be men-
tioned here parenthetically that since that time
Stott has sometimes, as in this year, been re-
jected by the Academy outright, and when ac-
cepted has always been far from the line, and
often hopelessly cornered. These coming in-
pictures to the Academy, but they were summarily
rejected. But at the Grosvenor Gallery and the
New English Art Club, and afterwards at the
New Gallery, he was offered the hospitality denied
him by the institution to which, in common with
all young men of genius, he had the right to
look upon as his natural mother. At the first
exhibition of the New Gallery he had two pictures
on the line ; one of them sold at this time and the
other subsequently. In 1889 he associated him-
dignities were, however, happily concealed from the
young painter in the inscrutable womb of the future.
He had already enough of actual trouble and
anxiety for his portion. All outside help was with-
drawn from him, and he had to make his living
entirely by his brush. Of the difficulties of these
days Mr. Stott is becomingly reticent, but a little
imagination will suffice to suggest some of them.
A crumb of comfort fell to him when a picture of
his was hung on the line at the Royal Institute,
and found a purchaser. The next year he sent two
self with the New English Art Club, with the
original aims of which body he has been in
sympathy throughout, though he has not been an
active member of the club. Since 1889 Stott has
been chiefly seen at the New Gallery and New
English Art Club, if we except one or two works
which can scarcely be said to have been seen—
they were skyed and cornered at the—Academy.
To enter more in detail into the various pictures
which have won for Mr. Stott the high position
he now holds, I will pass over his earlier efforts
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