Study for A Summer's Day

Details

William Stott of Oldham (1857-1900)
Study for A Summer's Day
pastel on light brown paper
9¼ x 12¼in. (23.5 x 31cm.)
Executed circa 1886

Provenance

M.D. Stott.

Exhibited

Manchester, City Art Gallery, James Charles, George Sheffield, William Stott (of Oldham) and D.A. Williamson, September-October 1912, no. 299.
London, Fine Art Society, William Stott of Oldham and Edward Stott, A.R.A., June 1976, no. 11.

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Lot Essay

The present work is a study for the central figure in the artist's large oil painting, A Summer's Day (1886; Manchester City Art Galleries; see K. McConkey, Impressionism in Britain, catalogue for the Barbican Art Gallery exhibition, 1995, no. 226, p. 35, illustrated).

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