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STUDY of a POOL for HAGAR AND ISHMAEL.
c. 1911
EDWARD
STOTT, A.R.A.
1856 - 1918
Pastel
on light brown paper, 52 x 31.75 (20.5 x 12.5)
Stamped,
EDWARD STOTT A.R.A. (lower left)
Provenance:
Artist's estate, 1918; Fine Art Society from whom purchased
in 1919 by Rev. Guy Pearse, Mirfield, Yorks: Cecil French.
Exhibited:
Fine Art Society, Memorial Exhibition, 1919 (26).
A
highly impressionistic study of a small pool and puddles.
The
completed painting, which illustrates an episode in the Bible,
Genesis 21: 9-21, shows Hagar reviving her dying son Ishmael
with water from the pool which has been revealed to her by
an angel. The pool for which this drawing is a study is in
the left foreground.
Stott
exhibited the oil painting of Hagar and Ishmael at
the Royal Academy in 1911 (181). It was originally owned by
Capt. J. Audley Harvey but the present whereabouts are unknown
to the compiler.
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