Marjorie Bates Explained

Marjorie Christine Bates
Birth Date:	1886
Birth Place:	Kings Newton, United Kingdom
Nationality:	British
Education:	Nottingham School of Art
Field:	Painting

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.^[1] Her family moved to Wilford in Nottinghamshire, where in 1911 it was living at a house called the Grange.^[2] 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.^[3]

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.^{[4] [3]}

External links

• Example prints
• Johnson, J., British artists, 1880–1940 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1976,)
• 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,)

Notes and References

1. http://www.panvertu.com/Bates.htm Bates at Panventu.com
2. [1911 United Kingdom census]
3. 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 –)
4. "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