{{short description|English artist}} {{Use British English|date=October 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Edith Bateson | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1867 | birth_place = Cambridge, England | death_date = {{death year and age|1938|1867}} | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | education = | alma_mater = Royal Academy Schools | known_for = Sculpture | notable_works = | style = | movement = | spouse = | partner = | awards = | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website = | module = }} '''Edith Bateson''' (1867–1938) was a British painter and sculptor.
==Biography== Bateson was born in Cambridge and studied painting and sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools in London, where she won a number of prizes.<ref name=MapEBj>{{cite web|author=University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1204924642|title=Edith Bateson|year=2011|access-date=30 October 2019|work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951|archive-date=14 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314111558/https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1204924642|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="GMWaters">{{cite book|author=Grant M. Waters|publisher=Eastbourne Fine Art|year=1975|title=Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950}}</ref> Living in Bushey in Hertfordshire, then for a time at Robin Hood's Bay in Yorkshire, Bateson created statuettes and small groups of figures in bronze.<ref name="Mackay">{{cite book|author=James Mackay|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1977|title=The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze |isbn= 0902028553}}</ref><ref name="GMWII">{{cite book|author=Grant M. Waters|publisher=Eastbourne Fine Art|year=1975|title=Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950 Volume II|isbn=0902010069}}</ref> From 1891 to 1935 she was a regular exhibitor in group exhibitions in London and Paris.<ref name="Benezit1">{{cite book|publisher=Editions Grund, Paris|year=2006|title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 1 A-Bedeschini|isbn=2-7000-3070-2}}</ref> In London she mainly showed works at the Royal Academy, with the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers and the Royal Society of British Artists while in Paris she exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais.<ref name="Mackay"/><ref name=MapEBj/><ref name="GMWaters"/>
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