Edward Hodges Baily
(1788-1867), Sculptor, designer and modeller of silverSitter in 6 portraits
Artist associated with 16 portraits
Edward Hodges Baily was a sculptor and designer. He was the son of a ship's carver and began his career as a modeller of small wax busts. Baily spent seven years in John Flaxman's studio before studying at the Royal Academy schools, where he won the first silver medal of the Society of Artists and was awarded gold and silver medals by the Royal Academy in 1809 and 1811. He was elected an Academician of the Royal Academy in 1817. Full membership followed in 1820 with the exhibition of Eve at the Fountain, one of the most famous pieces of British sculpture in the nineteenth century.
by Edward Hodges Baily, after Louis François Roubiliac
marble bust, 1828, based on a work of 1751
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by Edward Hodges Baily, after Joseph Nollekens
marble bust, 1828, based on a work of 1777
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by Edward Hodges Baily
marble bust, 1826
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attributed to Edward Hodges Baily
plaster cast of bust, circa 1828
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by Edward Hodges Baily
marble bust, 1830
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by Samuel Parker, after Edward Hodges Baily
bronze medallion, 1830
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by Scipio Clint, after Samuel Joseph, and Edward Hodges Baily
copper medal, 1830
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by Edward Hodges Baily
marble bust, 1838
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by Edward Hodges Baily
marble bust, 1844
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Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Bt
by Edward Hodges Baily
plaster cast of bust, 1850
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by Edward Hodges Baily
plaster cast of bust, 1851
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by Edward Hodges Baily
marble bust, 1853
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by James Thomson (Thompson), after Edward Hodges Baily
stipple engraving, published 1825
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by Edward Richard Whitfield, and by Henry Corbould, after Edward Hodges Baily
line engraving, after 1839
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Sir Thomas Lawrence; Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (on reverse)
by George Gammon Adams, after Edward Hodges Baily, and after Sir Thomas Lawrence
bronze medal, 1860
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Christopher Williams
09 January 2019, 12:38
A large portrait of E.H. Baily hangs in the hall at Freemasons' Hall, 17 Park Street, Bristol BS1 5NH. It was donated by his present family. It is very appropriate as it is the building which was Bristol's first "Literary and Philosophical Institution (1824)". Baily sculpted the frieze over the entrance, where it still stands today. His fee was 1,000 guineas (although he was never paid the full amount!)