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HARRY BATES (1850-1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 509 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HARRY

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

Bates died in London on the 3oth of

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

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