Marjorie Christine Bates R.A. (1882 – 1962) was born in Kings Newton

Kings Newton

Kings Newton is a village in South Derbyshire. The Holy well was constructed around 1660, but has been refurbished at the end of the twentieth century.-History:...

, near Melbourne, Derbyshire

Melbourne, Derbyshire

Melbourne is a Georgian market town in South Derbyshire, England. It is about 8 miles south of Derby and 2 miles from the River Trent. In 1837 a then tiny settlement in Australia was named after William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister, and thus indirectly takes...

. She was a painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy 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.. Her family moved to Wilford

Wilford

Wilford is a village close to the centre the city of Nottingham, UK, on the banks of the River Trent. It has been described as a semi-rural village in a city. The village is bounded to the north and west by the River Trent and to the east by the embankment of the now closed Great Central Railway...

 in Nottinghamshire where she attended the Nottingham School of Art

Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design

Founded in 1843, the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University is one of the oldest in the United Kingdom and currently has more than 2,500 students.-History:...

. She was a distant relative of both Laura Knight

Laura Knight

Dame Laura Knight, DBE was an English Impressionist painter known for painting the world of London's theatre, ballet and circus.-Early life and education:...

 and Harold Gresley

Harold Gresley

Harold Gresley was a British artist, following his father and grandfather. He was a painter of landscapes and portraits in watercolour and oil. He served in the Royal Fusiliers in the First World War and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal...

. She died in 1962.

External references

• 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.