Marjorie Christine Bates (19 May 1886 –20 December 1962) was an English landscape painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and in Paris. She achieved a moderate living from her paintings.
Biography
Born in
Kings Newton, near
Melbourne, Derbyshire
Melbourne () is a market town and civil parish in South Derbyshire, England.
It was home to Thomas Cook, founder of Thomas Cook & Son, the eponymous travel agency, and has a street named after him. It is south of Derby and from the River Trent ...
, Bates was the daughter of George Bates and his wife Emily Pentecost. Her father was a lace merchant who made money from the sale of mosquito netting.
[Bates at Panventu.com]
accessed 29 December 2007 Her family moved to
Wilford
Wilford is a village and former civil parish in the Nottingham district in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire, England. The village is to the northeast of Clifton, Nottinghamshire, Clifton, southwest of West Bridgford, northwest of Ruddi ...
in Nottinghamshire, where in 1911 it was living at a house called the Grange. Bates attended the
Nottingham School of Art and exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1910 and 1934. She was a distant relative of both
Laura Knight and
Harold Gresley.
[''Royal Academy exhibitors, 1905-70: a dictionary of artists and their work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts. Vol. 1: A-Car'' (East Ardsley, Wakefield: EP Publishing, 1973 – )]
Bates died on 20 December 1962 in
Costessey
Costessey ( ) is a town and civil parish in the South Norfolk district of Norfolk, England, and is north west of Norwich. The civil parish forms part of the Norwich built-up area, Norwich Urban Area.
History
Costessey lies in the valleys o ...
, Norfolk, aged 76, although still living at the Grange in Wilford. She left an estate valued at £6,836.
["BATES Marjorie Christine of The Grange Wilford Nottingham spinster died 20 December 1962 at The School House Costessey Norwich... £6836 12s" in ''Wills and Administrations (England and Wales) 1963'' (Probate Office, 1964), p. 267][
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References
External links
Example prints
* Johnson, J., ''British artists, 1880–1940'' (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1976, )
* Waters, G. M., ''Dictionary of British artists working 1900–1950'' (Eastbourne: Eastbourne Fine Art, 1975)
* Benezit, E., ''Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs'', editorial direction J. Busse. Vol. 1: Aa-Beduschi. (Paris: Grund, 1999, )
1886 births
1962 deaths
20th-century English painters
People from King's Newton
20th-century English women painters
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