Frederic Yates (1854–1919) was an English painter. He painted landscapes and portraits including President

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and Sanford Ballard Dole, the only president of Hawaii. He settled in the Lake District.

Life

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, and

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. In 1886, he moved to San Francisco where his family had settled a few years earlier. He married Emily, an American, in 1887. In San Francisco, he became a popular portraitist and taught at the newly formed Art Students League of San Francisco. Mary Yates by her father Frederic

In 1890 Frederic and Emily moved to Kent where their daughter Mary was born the following year. The three of them went to America to see Mary's grandparents. Whilst he was in Hawaii Yates painted the Hawaiian President Dole. They visited both China and Japan over the next few years. Frederic made the acquaintance of the Dowager Marchioness of Downshire who became his patron and introduced him to London society. Yates was active in San Francisco until 1900, when he returned to England. Yates had a commission to paint the educationalist

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in the Lake District and he decided to bring his daughter up there. They lived at "Cote How" near Grasmere until 1906. During this period he painted the educator John Haden Badley. He was invited to America to attend the inauguration of

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President

and to paint his portrait. According to Armitt Library, Yates was given the flag that Woodrow Wilson rested his hand on whilst taking his oath of office. He died in 1919.Frederick Yates
, Armitt Library, retrieved 13 July 2014 The

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and the

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are among the public collections holding work by Frederic Yates. There are 21 paintings in public collections in the United Kingdom.

References

;Notes ;Sources * Hjalmarson, Birgitta, ''Artful players, artistic life in early San Francisco'', Los Angeles, Balcony Press, 1999. * Hughes, Edan Milton, ''Artists in California, 1786-1940'', San Francisco, CA, Hughes Pub. Co., 1986. * Johnson, Jane, and A. Greutzner, ''The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940'', Woodbridge, UK, Antique Collectors' Club, 1980. * Waters, Grant M., ''Dictionary of British Artists, Working 1900-1950'', Eastbourne, Sussex, Eastbourne Fine Art, 1975. {{DEFAULTSORT:Yates, Frederic 1854 births 1919 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters 20th-century English painters People from Grasmere (village) 20th-century English male artists 19th-century English male artists