Edward Hodges Baily (1788-1867), Sculptor and designer and modeller of silver
Sitter 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 (1751)
On display at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 995
by Edward Hodges Baily, after Joseph Nollekens
marble bust, 1828 (1777)
On display in the Great Staircase Hall at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 996
by Edward Hodges Baily
marble bust, 1824
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6376
by Edward Hodges Baily
marble bust, 1826
NPG 5169
attributed to Edward Hodges Baily
plaster cast of bust, circa 1828
NPG 4525
by Edward Hodges Baily
marble bust, 1830
On display in Room 17 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 239
by Samuel Parker, after Edward Hodges Baily
bronze medallion, 1830
NPG 1507
by Scipio Clint, after Samuel Joseph, and Edward Hodges Baily
copper medal, 1830
NPG 4278
by Edward Hodges Baily
marble bust, 1838
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6365
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Bt
by Edward Hodges Baily
plaster cast of bust, 1850
On display in the Library at Bodelwyddan Castle
NPG 4056
by Edward Hodges Baily
plaster cast of bust, 1851
NPG 1390
by Edward Hodges Baily
marble bust, 1853
NPG 942
by James Thomson (Thompson), after Edward Hodges Baily
stipple engraving, published 1825
NPG D4934
by Edward Richard Whitfield, and by Henry Corbould, after Edward Hodges Baily
line engraving, after 1839
NPG D37014
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
NPG D2921
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