James Bateman RA (22 March 1893 – 2 August 1959) was an English painter and engraver specialising in agricultural topics, rural subjects and pastoral landscapes.
During World War One he served with the Northumberland Fusiliers, the Machine Gun Corps and, from 1916, with the Artists Rifles.
[1] Although he had studied sculpture at Leeds School of Art from 1910 to 1914, and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art,[2] a serious war-time injury caused by a gunshot wound to the spine and lungs, led him to concentrate on painting, as it would be less physically demanding.
[9] He painted a number of boxing scenes and portraits of boxers including one of Freddie Mills in 1951.
[10] In 1957 Bateman wrote Oil Painting, part of the How to do it series published by The Studio.