David Bates - At the head of Derwent Water

David BatesSee "External links for references" (1840 – 1921) was an English landscape artist who painted in

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and

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. Bates was born in

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and from 1855 worked as a

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at the

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porcelain works in

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- where he came to specialise in painting flowers. He left his employment there in 1880 to become a full-time professional painter. Bates was an "open-air" rural landscape artist, painting in the

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, Scotland and Wales, and abroad in Switzerland and Egypt. His work shows the influence of

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, Joseph Thors and

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, and Bates is associated in style with the Birmingham School of artists. Bates exhibited many works at the

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and the

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in London, and at the

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. His works are currently on display in Liverpool museum, Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, and several other art galleries. His son, John Noel Bates (

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1870–1927), who adopted the professional name John Bates Noel, was also a notable landscape painter.

Notes

One source
indicates his date of birth may be 1843.

External links

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David Bates
(Biog at artnet.com)

(Biog at "Haynes Fine Art).

(Brunswick Gallery)
David Bates
(Biog and paintings at "John Noott Galleries"). {{DEFAULTSORT:Bates, David 1840 births 1921 deaths 19th-century English painters 19th-century English male artists 20th-century English painters 20th-century English male artists Artists from Cambridge English male painters English watercolourists English landscape artists