. Studio international . tt, has repeatedly beencalled a painters painter. Nogreater compliment can be paida man. For what does the desig-nation mean but that he cannotdesert his track among the star-or play traitor to an art which ismore to him than either praise 01gain ? Material success may have LV. Xo. 227.—February 1912 come to Mr. Stott (and indeed it is no secret that ithas been lavished on him), but it is also certain thatthis particular artist has neither catered for tinman in the street nor altered a line in his work toearn the applause of a superficial public. Perhapssomething in th
. Studio international . tt, has repeatedly beencalled a painters painter. Nogreater compliment can be paida man. For what does the desig-nation mean but that he cannotdesert his track among the star-or play traitor to an art which ismore to him than either praise 01gain ? Material success may have LV. Xo. 227.—February 1912 come to Mr. Stott (and indeed it is no secret that ithas been lavished on him), but it is also certain thatthis particular artist has neither catered for tinman in the street nor altered a line in his work toearn the applause of a superficial public. Perhapssomething in the hard and uncongenial surround-ings of his youth stiffened his back in mattersaesthetic. For, like Sir Luke Fildes and Mr. HenryWoods, Mr. Stott is a native of Lancashire. Therewas little, it would appear, either artistic or stimu-lating in the Manchester home in which he wasreared. Stott the elder had the usual business mansprejudices concerning the artistic calling. Thus hesent his son Edward to the Rochdale Grammar. PASTEL STUDY BY EDWARD STOTT, 3 Edward Staff, School, and afterwards to Kings School, Ely, sold)with the view of his following a business career. [rear) \ears of Manchester and an officestool were the result. That the lad suffered, evena, Holman Hunt under precisely similar circum-stances suffered, goes without saying. Indeed,desultory studies pursued at the local art school inManchester and drawings made at momentssnatched from the routine of office work onlyfortified his determination to seek a scientificartistic training. But where to find it? Help atthe moment seemed far to seek. Luckily even inthese untutored days a certain originality asserteditself in the lads work. An admirer,all but unknown to the student, sud-denly came to his aid, and generousl)put within his grasp the unlooked-formeans of starting on a students careerin Paris. We are told by the mostdistinguished of Mr. Stotts biographersthat the news of the artists good for-tune was
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