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BATES, HARRY (1850-1899)

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BATES, HARRY (1850-1899) , See also:British sculptor, was See also:born at See also:Stevenage, Hefts; on the 26th of See also:April i85o. He began his career as a See also:carver's assistant, and before beginning the See also:regular study of plastic See also:art he passed through a See also:long See also:apprenticeship in architectural decoration. In 1879 he came to See also:London and entered the See also:Lambeth School of Art, studying under Jules See also:Dalou and See also:Rodin, and winning a See also:silver See also:medal in the See also:national competition at See also:South See also:Kensington. In 1881 he was admitted to the Royal See also:Academy See also:schools, where in 1883 he won the See also:gold medal and the travelling scholarship of £200 with his See also:relief of " See also:Socrates teaching the See also:People in the See also:Agora," which showed See also:grace of See also:line and See also:harmony of See also:composition. He then went to See also:Paris and studied under Rodin. A See also:head and three small See also:bronze panels (the " Odyssey,") executed by Bates in Paris, were exhibited at the Royal Academy, and selected for See also:purchase by the See also:Chantrey trustees; but the selection had to be cancelled because they had not been modelled in See also:England. His " See also:Aeneas " (1885), " See also:Homer " (1886), three " See also:Psyche " panels and " Rhodope " (1887) all showed marked advance in See also:form and dignity; and in 1892, after the See also:exhibition of his vigorously designed " Hounds in Leash," Bates was elected A.R.A. • This and his " See also:Pandora," in See also:marble and See also:ivory, which was bought in the same See also:year for the Chantrey See also:Bequest, are now in the See also:Tate See also:Gallery. The portrait-busts of Harry Bates are See also:good pieces of realism—strong, yet delicate in technique, and excellent in See also:character. His statues have a picturesqueness in which the refinement of the sculptor is always See also:felt. Among the See also:chief of these are the fanciful" Maharaja of See also:Mysore," somewhat overladen with See also:ornament, and the See also:colossal equestrian statue of See also:Lord See also:Roberts (1896) upon its important See also:pedestal, girdled with a See also:frieze of figures, now set up in See also:Calcutta, and a statue of See also:Queen See also:Victoria for See also:Dundee. But perhaps his masterpiece, showing the sculptor's delicate See also:fancy and skill in composition, was an allegorical presentment of "Love and See also:Life "—a winged male figure in bronze, with a See also:female figure in ivory being crowned by the male.

Bates died in London on the 3oth of See also:

January 1899, his premature See also:death robbing See also:English plastic art of its most promising representative at the See also:time.

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