Marjorie Christine Bates (19 May 1886 –20 December 1962) was an English landscape painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and in Paris.

Her father was a lace merchant who made money from the sale of mosquito netting.

[1] Her family moved to Wilford in Nottinghamshire, where in 1911 it was living at a house called the Grange.

[2] Bates attended the Nottingham School of Art and exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1910 and 1934.

[3] Bates died on 20 December 1962 in Costessey, Norfolk, aged 76, although still living at the Grange in Wilford.