Edith Honora Bateson [commonly known as Edith Bateson] was born in Cambridge, England in 1867. Her father, the Rev. William Henry Bateson (1812-1881), was Master at St. John's College. She studied under Edward Lanteri at the Royal Academy Schools in London where she was awarded three silver medals for sculpture. She subsequently worked as a painter, sculptor and stained glass designer. She exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1891, 1893, 1896, 1897 and 1912, and at the Society of Women Artists from 1916 to 1925. She also exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, New English Art Club, the Independent Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers, the London Salon, Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; and at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris.
In 1928 she joined the Fylingdales Group of Artists in Fylingdales, Yorkshire, with whom she exhibited from 1928 to 1935. She was a member of the Women's Guild of Arts.
Among her commissions were a bronze bust of Professor George Downing Liveing, F.R.S. for the Chemical Laboratories, Cambridge; and a marble bust of Mary Bateson or Newnham College.
Bateson was an active supporter of the women's suffrage movement and whilst living in Yorkshire was Honorary Secretary if the N.P.D. Ridings Federation of Women's Suffrage
Her address was given as 12 Oxford and Cambridge Mansions, London in 1891 and 1893; Chalseans, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire in 1896 and 1897; Singers Lane, Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire in 1911 and 1912; and Nightingale Corner, Bushey, Hertfordshire in 1924 and 1927. She died in Steyning, Sussex on 2 January 1938. Her address at the time of her death was Peacock Tree, Roundabout, Storrington, Sussex.
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)
