Bailey

Also known as Mary Bailey, Edward Hodges Baily
  • Artist (Painter)
The exact identity of the artist Bailey remains unknown - but there are several contenders including the Anglo-Irish sculptor Edward Hodges Baily and the painter Mary Bailey. The Bailey in question however had their painting 'Female Figure' exhibited in the second exhibition for the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts in Australia in Sydney in 1849.

painter(?), was listed as 'Bailey’, the artist of Female Figure lent to the second exhibition of the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Australia at Sydney in 1849 by Captain McLean. This could be assumed to be the Anglo-Irish sculptor Edward Hodges Baily (who sculpted Sydney’s statue of Governor Bourke, erected in 1842, but never came to Australia), except that a person called Bailey was named among artists working in New South Wales in Heads of the People on 28 August 1847. Mary Bailey , who signed a watercolour View from Sandy Bay (Tasmania) in about 1850 (National Library of Australia), could be the same person.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
1989