James Bateman (artist)

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James Bateman (March 22, 1893 - August 2, 1959) is an English painter and engraver specializing in agricultural topics, rural subjects and pastoral landscapes.

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Bateman was born in Kendal, son of a blacksmith. During the First World War he served with Northumberland Fusiliers, Machine Gun Corps and, from 1916, with Artists Rifles. Although he had studied carvings at the Leeds School of Art from 1910 to 1914, and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, a serious injury caused by a spinal injury in his spine and lungs, making him concentrate on painting, physical. Bateman studied at the Slade School of Art between 1919 and 1921, and became a finalist of the Rome Scholarship in 1920. After Slade, Bateman taught art, first at Cheltenham Art College, then Hammersmith Art School and, in 1929, at Goldsmith's College. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1924 onwards and became a full member of the Academy in 1942. He is also a member of the New England Art Club, the Cheltenham Group and the Cotswold Group.

At the beginning of the Second World War Bateman worked as a Camouflage Officer at the Civil Defense Camouflage Establishment for the Home Security Ministry at Leamington Spa. He was unhappy with the work and resigned, in March 1940, when offering a commission for four paintings on the subject of land work by the War Artist Advisory Committee. For the commission he visited the farm in Cambridge, St. Albans and Reading and he completed three pictures, including one in the Women's Army, and was offered a further commission for two production subjects at Shoeburyness but he refused because of other commitments and commissions going to Kenneth Rowntree.

After the war, Bateman continued to paint and teach. In 1948 he was elected as an Associete member of the Royal Watercolor Society. In 1957 Bateman wrote Oil Painting , part of the How to do series published by The Studio. He also began experimenting with new subjects, especially Ancient Greek myths. He died in London from a combination of liver failure and pneumonia in 1959.

Bateman's works are held at Tate, Laing Art Gallery and Cheltenham Art Gallery & amp; Museum.

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External links

• 31 Paintings by or after James Bateman on Art UK site

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