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John Dickson Batten (8 October 1860 – 5 August 1932), born in Plymouth, Devon, was a British painter of figures in oils, tempera and fresco and a book illustrator and printmaker. He was an active member of the Society of Painters in Tempera, with his wife Mary Batten, a gilder. ==Career== 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. He indulged in mythological and allegorical themes. 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''. In the 1890s, he illustrated a series of fairy tale books by Joseph Jacobs who was a member of the Folklore Society, notably ''English Fairy Tales'' (1890), ''Celtic Fairy Tales'' (1892 anthology), ''More Celtic Fairy Tales'' (1894) and ''More English Fairy Tales'' (1894). Then they turned to fairy tales collected from continental Europe : ''Indian Fairy Tales'' (1912), ''European Folk and Fairy Tales'' (also known as ''Europa's Fairy Book'')〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SurLaLune Fairytales - Illustration Gallery - John D. Batten (1860-1932) British )〕 (1916). He also illustrated English versions of ''Tales from the Arabian Nights'' and ''Dante's Inferno''. Jacobs published two books of poetry and a book on human flight.〔''Verses'', Cambridge: Devana Press, 1893. ''Poems'', London: Chiswick Press, 1916. ''An Approach to Winged Flight'', Brighton (England): Dolphin Press, 1928.〕 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. He served as a Secretary to the Society of Painters in Tempera and published in 1922 an article on ''The Practice of Tempera Painting''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John D. Batten」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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