Marjorie Bates

Marjorie Christine Bates (19 May 1886 –20 December 1962) was an English landscape painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and in Paris. She achieved a moderate living from her paintings.

Biography
Born in Kings Newton, near Melbourne, Derbyshire, Bates was the daughter of George Bates and his wife Emily Pentecost. Her father was a lace merchant who made money from the sale of mosquito netting. Her family moved to Wilford in Nottinghamshire, where in 1911 it was living at a house called the Grange. Bates attended the Nottingham School of Art and exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1910 and 1934. She was a distant relative of both Laura Knight and Harold Gresley.

Bates died on 20 December 1962 in Costessey, Norfolk, aged 76, although still living at the Grange in Wilford. She left an estate valued at £6,836.