BATES, HARRY (1850-1899)

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BATES, HARRY (1850-1899) , British sculptor, was born at Stevenage, Hefts; on the 26th of April i85o. He began his career as a carver's assistant, and before beginning the regular study of plastic art he passed through a long

apprenticeship

APPRENTICESHIP (from Fr. apprendre, to learn)

in architectural decoration. In 1879 he came to London and entered the Lambeth School of Art, studying under Jules Dalou and Rodin, and winning a silver

medal

MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

in the national competition at

South

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

Kensington. In 1881 he was admitted to the Royal

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

schools, where in 1883 he won the gold

medal

MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

and the travelling scholarship of 200 with his relief of " Socrates teaching the People in the Agora," which showed grace of line and harmony of composition. He then went to Paris and studied under Rodin. A head and three small bronze panels (the " Odyssey,") executed by Bates in Paris, were exhibited at the Royal

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

, and selected for purchase by the Chantrey trustees; but the selection had to be cancelled because they had not been modelled in England. His " Aeneas " (1885), "

Homer

HOMER,
WINSLOW
- WINSLOW, EDWARD (1595-1655)
(1836-191o)

" (1886), three " Psyche " panels and " Rhodope " (1887) all showed marked advance in form and dignity; and in 1892, after the exhibition of his vigorously designed " Hounds in Leash," Bates was elected A.R.A. This and his " Pandora," in

marble

MARBLE (from Lat. marmor, Gr. pApµapos, shining stone)

and ivory, which was bought in the same year for the Chantrey Bequest, are now in the Tate Gallery. The portrait-busts of Harry Bates are good pieces of realismstrong, yet delicate in technique, and excellent in character. His statues have a picturesqueness in which the refinement of the sculptor is always felt. Among the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

of these are the fanciful" Maharaja of Mysore," somewhat overladen with

ornament

ORNAMENT (Lat. ornare, to adorn)

, and the colossal equestrian statue of Lord Roberts (1896) upon its important pedestal, girdled with a

frieze

FRIEZE

of figures, now set up in Calcutta, and a statue of Queen Victoria for Dundee. But perhaps his masterpiece, showing the sculptor's delicate fancy and skill in composition, was an allegorical presentment of "Love and Life "a winged male figure in bronze, with a female figure in ivory being crowned by the male. Bates died in London on the 3oth of January 1899, his premature death robbing English plastic art of its most promising representative at the time. , (See SCULPTURE.)

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