EDWARD STOTT, A.R.A., N.E.A.C. (1859-1918)
Peaceful Evening
signed 'Edward Stott' (lower left)
oil on canvas
24 x 31 in. (61 x 78.7 cm.)
Provenance
Andrew Muir (†); Christie's, London, 7 April 1900, lot 39, as 'Peaceful Evening: A landscape with cattle' (62 gns to Arthur Tooth). C.T. Harris (†); Christie's, London, 27 November 1913, lot 121 (65 gns to Jackson). Richard H. Boyle, by 1920. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Belgravia, 20 September 1977, lot 79, as 'Moonlight'.
Literature
J. Stanley Little, 'On the Work of Edward Stott', The Studio, vol. VI, November 1895, p. 75.
Exhibited
London, New Gallery, 1891, no. 18. Chicago, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, no. 450. Rochdale, Rochdale Art Gallery, Edward Stott Memorial Exhibition, March - April 1920, as 'Moonlight', lent by Richard H. Boyle.