Edward Hodges Baily

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Inscribed (bottom right): Bailey [sic]

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Baily was a visitor at the life school of the Royal Academy, where this drawing was done, in 1846, so it probably dates from that year.

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The artist; bequeathed to John Elliot, and presented by him, 1907.

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R. L. Ormond, 'Victorian Student's Secret Portraits', Country Life, CXLI (February 1967), 288-9.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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