Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
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Chantrey Bequest
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/james-bateman-701" aria-label="More by James Bateman" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">James Bateman</a>
Cattle Market
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1938
agricultural
agriculture and fishing
animals: mammals
architecture
bull
castle
child
children
cow
England
England, South East
England, Southern
farmer
goat
house
Lewes, Lewes Castle
livestock pen
market
military
people
pig
places
public and municipal
residential
society
Sussex - non-specific
Sussex, East
townscape
townscapes / man-made features
tractor
trailer
transport: land
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
26 May 2017 – 2 September 2017
2017-09-02
26 May 2017 – 2 September 2017
2017-09-02
2017-05-26
Southampton City Art Gallery (Southampton, UK)
http://www.southampton.gov.uk/leisure/arts
2017-05-26
Capture the Castle
Loan-out
14 September 2019 – 5 January 2020
2020-01-05
14 September 2019 – 5 January 2020
2020-01-05
2019-09-14
Museum MORE (Gorssel, Netherlands)
2019-09-14
British Realist Painting in the 1920s and 1930s
Loan-out
Cattle Market
support: 914 × 1118 mm
frame: 1148 × 1345 × 115 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1938
<p><b>N04958</b> CATTLE MARKET 1937
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<br/>Inscr. ‘J. Bateman 1937’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 36×44 (91·5×112).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1938.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1938 (23).
<br/><i>Repr:</i>
<i>Royal Academy Illustrated</i>, 1938, p.21 (as 50×40 in.); <i>Studio</i>, CXXXIV, 1947, p.121 (in colour).</p>
<p>The scene is at Lewes, Sussex, with Lewes Castle in the background. The artist's widow wrote (9 September 1959): ‘Apart from the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> of the magnificent bull it is essentially a studio picture - composed. However, even for a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> the most careful studies and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> from Nature were always made.’</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-06T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
agricultural agriculture and fishing animals: mammals architecture bull castle child children cow England England, South East England, Southern farmer goat house Lewes, Lewes Castle livestock pen market military people pig places public and municipal residential society Sussex, East Sussex - non-specific townscape townscapes / man-made features tractor trailer transport: land UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions work and occupations