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Robert Bateman
Paintings
The Pool of Bethesda
The Three Ravens
Robert Bateman (1842–1922) was an English painter and horticultural designer.
Life
He was the third son of James Bateman FRS (1812–1897), the accomplished horticulturist and landowner, who built Biddulph Grange and its gardens, in Staffordshire.
Along with his elder brothers John and Rowland, Robert was educated at Brighton College - John 1855-56, Rowland 1855-59 and Robert 1855-60. From 1863 to 1867, he was a student at the Royal Academy schools.[1] From about 1870 he was the leader of a group of artists inspired by the art of Edward Burne-Jones. He was a founder of the Society of Painters in Tempera in 1901.
Works
His key paintings are The Dead Knight (1870), The Pool of Bethesda (1877, exhibited at the Royal Academy 1878), The Raising of Samuel (exhibited at the Royal Academy 1880) and The Lily or the Rose (exhibited at the Royal Academy 1882).[2] Walter Crane, in his An Artist's Reminiscences (1907), described Bateman's painting as of... "a magic world of romance and pictured poetry, a twilight world of dark mysterious woodlands, haunted streams, meads of deep green starred with burning flowers, veiled in a dim and mystic light."
The Pool of Bethesda is at the Yale Centre of British Art. The Dead Knight is in a private collection, but there is a fine large color reproduction in the book The Last Romantics (1989). The Lily or the Rose he presented to his old school, Brighton College, where it hung for many years on the main building staircase until destroyed c.1960 after Brighton Royal Pavilion Museum and Art Gallery refused to accept it as a gift.[3]
As well as paintings, Bateman designed religious woodcuts, his work appearing in The Latin Year, The Church Service and A Century of Bibles.[4]
Robert practiced as an architect, most notably building Collyers, a house near Petersfield.[5] He was also noted as a naturalist (corresponding with Charles Darwin), a botanical illustrator, sculptor, book illustrator, and an Italian scholar. He also left a horticultural legacy, in his planting of the gardens at Bentham Hall from 1890–1906 — much of his garden design there is still extant and is now maintained by the National Trust as part of Benthall Hall.
Family
Robert married the daughter of the Dean of Lichfield in 1883, and became a wealthy owner of property and land. His fortune led him to become a noted philanthropist of the time. He and his wife Caroline lived near Much Wenlock, Shropshire, at the 16th-Century Benthall Hall; now a National Trust property.
References
ed. H J Mathews, Brighton College Register, Part I. 1847-1863 (J Farncombe, Brighton, 1886), p.80
ed. H J Mathews, Brighton College Register, Part I. 1847-1863 (J Farncombe, Brighton, 1886), p.80
The painting was illustrated in the Brighton College Magazine. Information in Brighton College Archives
ed. H J Mathews, Brighton College Register, Part I. 1847-1863 (J Farncombe, Brighton, 1886), p.80
ed. H J Mathews, Brighton College Register, Part I. 1847-1863 (J Farncombe, Brighton, 1886), p.80
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