{"id":783,"date":"2013-03-03T13:36:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T13:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=783"},"modified":"2013-03-03T13:36:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T13:36:30","slug":"robert-bateman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2013\/03\/03\/robert-bateman\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Bateman (1842\u20131922)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to hear that the local historian Nigel Daly is to publish a book on the life and work of the North Staffordshire artist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Bateman_(artist)\">Robert Bateman<\/a>, one the the &#8220;last romantics&#8221; in the school of Burne-Jones, and also one of the Bateman family sired by botanist and garden designer James Bateman (Biddulph Grange). Nigel wants to locate images of Robert Bateman&#8217;s large major oil painting &#8220;Saul and the Witch of Endor&#8221;, given into the trust of the Potteries Museum &mdash; but since mislaid. It was last heard of in Longton Town Hall in the early 1950s. If you know anything of it, please contact Nigel at: &nbsp;nigel@nigeldaly.co.uk<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/robert-bateman-three-women-plucking-mandrakes.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"robert bateman Three Women Plucking Mandrakes\" width=\"640\" height=\"438\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-784\" \/><br \/>Above: Robert Bateman, &#8220;Three Women Plucking Mandrakes&#8221;. The mandrake root was reputed to produce a deadly scream when plucked from the earth, and the root has accumulated many strange superstitions over the centuries.  Picture: Wellcome Trust collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to hear that the local historian Nigel Daly is to publish a book on the life and work of the North Staffordshire artist Robert Bateman, one the the &#8220;last romantics&#8221; in the school of Burne-Jones, and also one of the Bateman family sired by botanist and garden designer James Bateman (Biddulph Grange). Nigel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}