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Robert Bateman

Robert Bateman (1842 - 1922) was active/lived in United Kingdom.  Robert Bateman is known for Painting.

Robert Bateman (1842-1922)

He was one of a group of young artists who came to prominence in the 1860s, devoting themselves to literary subjects and poetic landscapes which represent a significant aspect of the emerging Aesthetic movement.  Since he was a man of private means who could afford to work slowly, his oeuvre is small (only thirty-two pictures are recorded and far fewer known to survive) and was for long shrouded in obscurity.  Bateman's work is notoriously eccentric and often refers to the Renaissance masters, whom he had studied on visits to Italy and Spain in the early 1860s.  Both tendencies are characteristic of his masterpiece, The Pool of Bethesda of 1876-7 (Yale), while it would be hard to find a quirkier picture than Plucking Mandrakes, a watercolour of 1870 (Wellcome Institute, London).  Almost as weird is a watercolour sold at Christie's, London, on 28 November 2000 (lot 43), quaintly entitled Reading of   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5000 characters.]  Artist bio

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Robert Bateman (1842-1922)

He was one of a group of young artists who came to prominence in the 1860s, devoting themselves to literary subjects and poetic landscapes which represent a significant aspect of the emerging Aesthetic movement.  Since he was a man of private means who could afford to work slowly, his oeuvre is small (only thirty-two pictures are recorded and far fewer known to survive) and was for long shrouded in obscurity.  Bateman's work is notoriously eccentric and often refers to the Renaissance masters, whom he had studied on visits to Italy and Spain in the early 1860s.  Both tendencies are characteristic of his masterpiece, The Pool of Bethesda of 1876-7 (Yale), while it would   ...  Displaying 750 of 5000 characters.

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