John D. Batten

John Dickson Batten (8 October 1860 – 5 August 1932), born in Plymouth, Devon, was an English painter of figures in oils, tempera and fresco and a book illustrator and printmaker.

As a student at the Slade School of Fine Arts under Alphonse Legros he exhibited until 1887 at the Grosvenor Gallery with Sir Edward Burne-Jones.

Among Batten's paintings are The Garden of Adonis: Amoretta and Time, The Family, Mother and Child, Sleeping Beauty: The Princess Pricks Her Finger, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and Atalanta and Melanion.

[2][3] At the end of the 1890s he turned to the painting technique of egg tempera and played an important part in its revival with Birmingham artists such as Arthur Gaskin.

There is an article & bibliography in Studies 86 of the Imaginative Book Illustration Society https://bookillustration.org Alan Windsor.

One of Batten's illustrations for English Fairy Tales , 1890
Indian Fairy Tales, Edited by Joseph Jacobs, Illustrated by John D. Batten
Pandora 1913
Indian Fairy Tales, Edited by Joseph Jacobs, Illustrated by John D. Batten