Marjorie Bates
{{short description|English painter}}
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| birth_place = Kings Newton, United Kingdom
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| nationality = British
| education = Nottingham School of Art
| field = Painting
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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, 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.[http://www.panvertu.com/Bates.htm Bates at Panventu.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412081749/http://panvertu.com/bates.htm |date=2019-04-12 }} accessed 29 December 2007 Her family moved to Wilford in Nottinghamshire, where in 1911 it was living at a house called the Grange.1911 United Kingdom census, [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/5069711:2352 The Grange, Wilford], ancestry.com, accessed 7 December 2023 {{subscription required}} 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 – {{ISBN|0-85409-818-6}})
Bates died on 20 December 1962 in Costessey, 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
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060516102018/http://charterprints.co.uk/Bates_M.htm Example prints]
- Johnson, J., British artists, 1880–1940 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1976, {{ISBN|0-902028-36-7}})
- 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, {{ISBN|2-7000-3011-7}})
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Category:20th-century English painters
Category:People from King's Newton
Category:20th-century English women painters
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