Marjorie Bates

Marjorie Bates

Marjorie Christine Bates R.A. (1882–1962) was born in Kings Newton, near Melbourne, Derbyshire. She was a painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy^[1] 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.^[2] Her family moved to Wilford in Nottinghamshire where she attended the Nottingham School of Art. She was a distant relative of both Laura Knight and Harold Gresley. She died in 1962.

References

1. 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.
2. Bates at Panventu.com accessed 29 December 2007

External links

• Example prints
• Johnson, J.: British artists, 1880-1940. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1976. – ISBN 0-902028-36-7. – (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 ... [editorial direction]: J. Busse. T. 1: Aa-Beduschi. Paris: Grund, 1999. – ISBN 2-7000-3011-7.