Henry Mayo Bateman - Artist Info

About Henry Mayo Bateman

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    Henry Mayo Bateman (15 February 1887 – 11 February 1970, Gozo, Malta) was a British humorous artist and cartoonist.

    H. M. Bateman was noted for his "The Man Who..." series of cartoons, featuring comically exaggerated reactions to minor and usually upper-class social gaffes, such as The Man Who Lit His Cigar Before the Royal Toast, The Man Who Threw a Snowball at St. Moritz and The Boy Who Breathed on the Glass at the British Museum. These appeared in the satirical magazine Punch.

    Henry Bateman was born in the small village of Sutton Forest in New South Wales, Australia. His parents were Henry Charles Bateman and Rose Mayo. His father had left England for Australia in 1878, at the age of 21, to see...

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