Edward La Trobe Bateman (8 January 1816 – 30 December 1897) was a

Pre-Raphaelite The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James ...

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painter, book illuminator, draughtsman and

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er.

Life

Bateman was probably born in Lower Wyke,

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, the son of John Bateman, a manufacturer, and his wife Mary (née) La Trobe. His brothers were

John Frederick Bateman John Frederick La Trobe Bateman (30 May 1810 – 10 June 1889) was an English civil engineer whose work formed the basis of the modern United Kingdom water supply industry. For more than 50 years from 1835 he designed and constructed reser ...

, the hydraulic engineer, and Christian Henry Bateman, an

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minister and a composer of hymns. His nephew

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was a notable architect, and a cousin

Charles Latrobe Charles la Trobe, CB (20 March 18014 December 1875), commonly Latrobe, was appointed in 1839 superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales and, after the establishment in 1851 of the colony of Victoria (now a state of Australi ...

was first lieutenant-governor of the colony of the state of Victoria in Australia. In 1924, his grandson

Charles La Trobe Charles la Trobe, CB (20 March 18014 December 1875), commonly Latrobe, was appointed in 1839 superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales and, after the establishment in 1851 of the colony of Victoria (now a state of Austra ...

donated 12 artworks by Bateman to the state. The pencil sketches were of

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and its grounds. Bateman had lived in London where he had been engaged to the daughter of

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and

Mary Howitt Mary Howitt (12 March 1799-30 January 1888) was an English poet, the author of the famous poem '' The Spider and the Fly''. She translated several tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Some of her works were written in conjunction with her husband, ...

.Edward le Trobe Bateman
at ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'' accessed 6 October 2007 When Bateman visited Australia, he stayed initially with

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. In 1856, the

Carlton Gardens The Carlton Gardens is a World Heritage Site located on the northeastern edge of the Central Business District in the suburb of Carlton, in Melbourne, Australia. A popular picnic and barbecue area, the heritage-listed Carlton Gardens are home ...

in Melbourne were redesigned and Edward la Trobe Bateman was engaged to do the designs. The path layout and other features were built, although limitations on funding for maintenance resulted in frequent criticism.

References

External links

Edward La Trobe Bateman
(''Dictionary of Australian Artists'' online)
Edward La Trobe Bateman: An Interesting Old-time Personality
''The Age''
Edward LaTrobe Bateman: Prints and Printmaking, 71 works
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bateman, Edward Le Trobe 19th-century English painters English male painters English watercolourists Pre-Raphaelite painters English landscape and garden designers 1815 births 1897 deaths Artists from Bradford 19th-century English male artists