Marjorie Christine Bates R.A. (1882–1962) was born in
Kings Newton
Kings Newton is a village in South Derbyshire. The population of the village is included in Melbourne. The Holy well (pictured) was constructed around 1660, but has been refurbished at the end of the twentieth century.
History
Unlike many villa ...
, near
Melbourne, Derbyshire
Melbourne () is a market town and civil parish in South Derbyshire, England.
It was home to Thomas Cook, and has a street named after him. It is south of Derby and from the River Trent. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was ...
. She was a painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy''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. – . in London and Paris and achieved a moderate living from her paintings.
Biography
Bates was the daughter of George and Emily Bates who had 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 in the city of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. The village is to the northeast of Clifton, southwest of West Bridgford, northwest of Ruddington and southwest of Nottingham city centre. It is at a meander of the Rive ...
in Nottinghamshire where she attended the Nottingham School of Art. She was a distant relative of both
Laura Knight
Dame Laura Knight ( Johnson; 4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970) was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition, who embraced English Impressi ...
and
Harold Gresley
Harold Gresley (1892–1967) was a British artist, following his father and grandfather. He was a painter of landscapes and portraits in watercolour and oil.Example prints * Johnson, J.: British artists, 1880–1940. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1976. – . – (Dictionary of British Art; vol. 5)
* 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. Nouvelle edition ... ditorial direction J. Busse. T. 1: Aa-Beduschi. Paris: Grund, 1999. – .
1880s births1962 deaths20th-century English painters20th-century English women artistsEnglish women paintersPeople from King's Newton
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