STOTT, John Herbert

    John Herbert Stott (1864 – 1941) became successful as an artist-illuminator, producing richly decorated leather-bound albums or framed testimonials to celebrate the life events of local people. He was born in Halifax; his father, also named John, was a wool-sorter at Mytholmroyd, where the family lived. By the age…

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HIRST, Stuart

  Stuart Hirst was born in Bradford in 1950.  He gained recognition for his popular watercolour paintings of urban scenes in the Bradford district and elsewhere.  His ‘wet streets’ series in particular capture the sense of rain reflecting on cobbles and flagstones in a 19th century built townscapes.  The scenes…

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