Identity:
Robert Bateman was a minor Pre-Raphaelite painter.
Life:
He studied at the Royal Academy Schools and later exhibited at the Academy, the Grosvenor Gallery and elsewhere. He may have known JW in the mid-seventies, since his name appears in an address book (#12714).
Bibliography:
Wood, Christopher, Victorian Painters, 2 vols., 3rd ed., revised, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1995; UK census 1881 from http://www.familysearch.org (accessed 2004).