James Bateman (artist)
James Bateman was an English painter and engraver specialising in agricultural topics and pastoral landscapes.
Bateman was born in Kendal, Cumbria, the son of a blacksmith. During World War One he served with the Northumberland Fusiliers, the Machine Gun Corps and, from 1916, with the Artists Rifles. Although he had studied sculpture at Leeds School of Art from 1910 to 1914, a serious wartime injury caused by a gunshot wound to the spine and lungs, led him to concentrate on painting, as it would be less physically demanding. Bateman studied at the Slade School of Art between 1919 and 1921, under Henry Tonks, before going to teach at first the Cheltenham Art College and then the Hammersmith School of Art and Goldsmiths College in 1929. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1924 and was made a full member of the Academy in 1942. He was also a member of the New English Art Club, the Cheltenham Group and the Cotswold Group.
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