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Edwin Butler Bayliss — , [ 1 ] was an English artist based in the Black Country , famous for his realistic and unsentimental paintings of industrial sites in the area. At eighteen he returned to his family's large house in Tettenhall, The Woodhouse.

Edwin Butler Bayliss (–),

He joined his father's manufacturing firm, but at twenty-seven he had left to pursue his artistic ambitions. Edwin was originally self-taught, he seems to have no formal art training except for learning basic techniques by his friend and fellow artist, Joseph Vickers de Ville. He sketches in charcoal, pastel and watercolour and painting mainly in oil.

He was a prolific painter, a competent etcher, and apparently a sculptor too, though no examples of his sculpture are known. This biographical article about a painter from England is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version.

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