Background
David Bates was born in 1840, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
Worcester, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom
David Bates worked as a porcelain painter at the Royal Worcester porcelain works from 1855 - 1880.
David Bates was born in 1840, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
David Bates spent most of his early life in Worcestershire, where he was apprenticed at the Royal Worcester Porcelain Works from around 1855.
From 1855, David Bates worked as a porcelain painter at the Royal Worcester porcelain works in Worcester, where he came to specialise in painting flowers. He left his employment there in 1880 to become a full-time professional painter.
A painter in both oils and watercolours, Bates visited North Africa, before returning to paint landscapes mostly of Wales and Scotland. He shows the influence of Benjamin Williams Leader (1831-1923), Joseph Thors and S.H. Baker.
David Bates also made small oil sketches of hedges and plants, which were usually inscribed on the reverse. The artist’s works display considerable technical virtuosity, ranging from the serene landscape, to the uneven swagger of his later works, which were noticeably less colourful.
David Bates exhibited at The Royal Academy 1863 - 1893, Royal Society of British Artists, Grafton Gallery and the New Watercolour Society.
In the mangel field
1902Summer flowers in a quiet corner of the garden
1882Forge Mill, River Tame
1888Mending the Fence, Sutton Park
The Shores of Rydal Water, Cumbria
Joinville on the River Marne
1875Hearts of Oak
1891Hay Time on the High Moors
1878Tidal Fence on the River Conway, Bachlediog
On Ripple Common, Worcestershire
Arab Shepherds
1892Near Festiniog
The Border of the Nile Valley
1892The Banks of the Brathay, Ambleside, Westmoreland
1901Above Rydal Mount, Ambleside
1897A Bean Field at Pickersleigh, near Malvern, Worcestershire
1890Stepping Stones on the Llugwy
Broadheath Common
1875Early Morning on the Severn
The Lledr Valley
A River Landscape with Reeds, Arthog
1893Feeding the Geese
A Worcestershire Lane Scene
1904Bedouin at an Oasis with Pyramids
1902River Landscape
1878Souvenir of March
1886Brook at Old Storridge, Worcestershire
Interior of a Welsh Cottage
1873Crossing the Severn
1905Stacking the Oak Fence
On the Long Mynd, Church Stretton
1907Malvern Priory, Worcestershire
A Dog and a Flock of Sheep
A Beech Wood, Malvern, Worcestershire
1889A Warwickshire Lane
1893Colwell, near Malvern, Worcestershire
1887David Bates had a son. His son, John Noel Bates, who adopted the professional name John Bates Noel, became a notable landscape artist.