David Bates (artist)

David Bates ( * 1840 in Cambridge, † 1921) was an English landscape painter, who painted in oil and watercolor.

Life

Bates began in 1855 as a porcelain painter at the Royal Worcester porcelain factory in Worcester, where he specialized in flower painting. He remained there until 1880, when he made ​​his own as a painter.

As an open-air artist Bates painted landscapes in the Midlands, Scotland and Wales; as in Switzerland and Egypt. His work shows influences from Benjamin Williams Leader, Joseph Thors and Samuel Henry Baker and the Birmingham School of Art is attributed.

His works have been exhibited numerous, including in London at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Grosvenor Gallery, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. Painting by Bates are among others the World Museum Liverpool, in the Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum and other galleries and museums.

His son, John Bates Noel (1870-1927), worked under the stage name John Bates Noel also as a landscape painter.