Robert Bateman (British, 1842-1922) A May Madrigal image 1

Robert Bateman (British, 1842-1922) A May Madrigal image 2

Lot 48

Robert Bateman
(British, 1842-1922)
A May Madrigal

19th Century and British Impressionist Art

29 March 2023, 14:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

Sold for £6,375 inc. premium

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Robert Bateman (British, 1842-1922)

A May Madrigal
signed and dated 'ROBERT/1869/BATEMAN' (lower left), inscribed 'A May Madrigal/Painted by ROBERT BATEMAN of Biddulph Grange, Staff &/given by him to Miss (Rose) PRESTON (on her marriage)/September 1869' (on a label attached to the reverse)
gouache
27 x 39.5cm (10 5/8 x 15 9/16in).

Footnotes

Robert Bateman was a minor figure within the Pre-Raphaelite movement; he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1865 and went on to exhibit at the Academy between 1871-89, as well as at the Grosvenor Gallery. He submitted 5 works to the Dudley Gallery in 1868, the Art Journal noting that Bateman's work saw a shift in emphasis from the Ruskin-esque mantra of 'close to nature', using medieval motifs 'as an escape from naturalism'¹ The son of a horticulturalist, Bateman's work was often populated with architectural and botanical themes. Christopher Wood describes the style of his work as 'compounded of Burne-Jones and eclectic study of early Italian Renaissance painters'².

Bateman's Pool of Bethesda (1876) is in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, and his work has featured in various exhibitions such as The Last Romantics (Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1989) and Pre-Raphaelite Vision (Tate London, 2004)

¹Christopher Newall, catalogue entry for The Three Ravens, exhibition catalogue for Pre-Raphaelite Vision, London, 2004, p. 235.
²Christopher Wood, Dictionary of Victorian Painters, Woodbridge, 1995, p.42.

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