James Bateman (artist)

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James Bateman, (22 March 1893 - 2 August 1959), was an English painter and engraver specialising in agricultural topics and pastoral landscapes.

Bateman was born in Kendal, Cumbria, into a farming family. Although he studied sculpture at Leeds from 1910 to 1914, an serious injury sustained whilst serving during the First World War led to him concentrating on painting.[1] Bateman studied at the Slade School of Art between 1919 and 1921 before going to teach at first the Cheltenham Art College and then the Hammersmith School of Art.[2] He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1924 and was made a full member of the Academy in 1942.[3] He was also a member of the New English Art Club, the Cheltenham Group and the Cotswold Group.[4]

At the start of the Second World War Bateman worked at the Directorate of Camouflage unit in Leamington Spa. He was unhappy with the work and resigned, in March 1940, when offered a commission for four paintings on land work subjects by the War Artists' Advisory Committee. He completed three of these, including one on the Women's Land Army, and was offered a further commission for two production subjects at Shoeburyness but he declined due to other commitments and the commission went to Kenneth Rowntree.[5]

Works by James Bateman are held in the Tate, the Laing Art Gallery and the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Aberystwyth University School of Art. "James Bateman". Aberystwyth University. Retrieved 24 October 2013. 
  2. ↑ Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1 85149 106 6. 
  3. ↑ University of Glasgow. "'James Bateman RA'". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2013. 
  4. ↑ Tate. "Artist Biography - James Bateman". Tate. Retrieved 24 October 2013. 
  5. ↑ Imperial War Museum. "War artists archive, James Bateman". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 23 October 2013. 
  6. ↑ BBC/Public Catalogue Foundation. "Your Paintings - James Bateman 1893 - 1959". Your Paintings. Retrieved 24 October 2013. 
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