by Leo Bates; Graphite on artists’ prepared board; 36.8 x 27 cm.
£180 (inc. UK delivery)
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Condition
The primary support is an artists’ prepared board. It is in very good overall condition albeit with slight acidity, consistent with age and type, and some edge wear in the form of skinning and adhesive and fibre residue from the removal of a previous over-mount. A little adhesive and paper residue protrudes into the image in the upper right corner; this might be removed by a paper conservator, however, and the image is otherwise unaffected with a strong design layer in original condition.
The Artist
Leonard Fison Bates (11 May 1890, Liverpool) was the seventh and last child of William Taylor Bates (the manager of a flour mill, born in Essex in 1846) and his wife Charlotte Mary, née Johnson (born in Germany in 1848). He was an artist and illustrator for Cassell & Co and also Hodder & Stoughton, producing numerous dust-wrappers and illustrations mostly for children’s adventure stories but also for magazines including ‘The Detective Magazine’ (1922-1925). ‘The Dictionary of Book Illustrators: The Twentieth Century’ described him as “a dexterous, fluent, even slick draughtsman who turned his hand mainly to boys’ adventure stories and girls’ school stories. He worked mainly in pencil, occasionally adding white chalk highlights or grey washes for half-tone reproduction.”