22-447: Gilbert William Bayes (4 April 1872 – 10 July 1953) was an English sculptor. His art works varied in scale from medals to large architectural clocks, monuments and equestrian statues and he was also a designer of some note, creating chess pieces, mirrors and cabinets. Bayes was born in London into a family of artists, his father being Alfred Walter Bayes, an established artist at the time. He
44-470: A Tube Station during a London air raid . The scale and composition reflects Bayes's pre-war work as a theatre designer and creates the impression that the viewer is passing through the station, and past the cast of characters on the platform, as if on a train. The picture was shown at the 1918 Royal Academy show and purchased by the Imperial War Museum , who asked Bayes if he would do a further work for
66-574: A collective display of their works, which has hitherto been impossible, will prove not only of interest to the public, but will better explain the aim and method of their art.' The Society held regular Spring and Autumn exhibitions, a number of which were held at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London, until its demolition in 1905. The Impressionist style was well represented at the NEAC, in comparison to
88-766: A founding member of the London Group . He also exhibited at the Franco-British Exhibition of 1908. In the 1910s, a constant theme of Bayes's work were direct oil sketches of his wife and his sons. During World War I, Bayes continued to teach at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, which was close to the Elephant & Castle tube station on the London Underground. This was to be the site of one of Bayes's best known works, The Underworld: Taking cover in
110-607: A major British gallery was Top o' the Tide which the Walker Art Gallery acquired in 1900. In 1901 he had painted scenes for a production Henrik Ibsen 's John Gabriel Borkman and in 1911 would exhibit both costume and scenery designs. In 1906 Bayes became the art critic of Athenaeum in place of Roger Fry . In 1908 Bayes was one of the initial eighty artists to join the Allied Artists' Association formed by Frank Rutter . At
132-700: The Ealing Art Group from 1947–1953. He died in London in 1953. Bayes' home at 4 Greville Place in St. John's Wood bears a blue plaque erected by English Heritage in 2007. In 1906, Bayes married Gertrude Smith, a fellow sculptor, in Farnham, Surrey. They had two children: The Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington has named a gallery after Bayes. In 2011 the Royal British Society of Sculptors created
154-640: The Ministry of Information . Bayes spent some time in Devon in 1918 preparing for what became Landing Survivors from a Torpedoed Ship . This painting was earmarked by the British War Memorials Committee for a proposed, but never built, national Hall of Remembrance . When that project was cancelled the painting was given to the Imperial War Museum but was destroyed by fire in 1977. In 1918 Bayes
176-585: The Royal Academy , and Emily Ann Fielden. Walter's sister, Jessie , was a designer in the Arts and Crafts style and his younger brother was the sculptor Gilbert Bayes . Walter Bayes attended the Quaker School at Saffron Waldon. While there, he and E.V. Lucas and Graham Hill started a periodical broadsheet. He then attended University College School before beginning work in a solicitor's office. He did not enjoy
198-604: The 1890s Bayes began teaching, first at the City and Guilds of London Institute, later at Bolt Court School of Art and then at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts . He also started writing on art theory and criticism with regular columns in Outlook , Saturday Review and Weekend Review . He continued to paint, mostly landscapes in oil and watercolour but also developed an interest in theatre design. The first work by Bayes purchased by
220-571: The British New Sculpture movement and its focus on architectural sculpture. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1889, aged 17. In Paris, Bayes won an honourable mention at the 1900 International Exhibition, then several medals at the Paris Salon and, in 1925, a gold medal and diploma of honour at the Exhibition of Decorative Art. His work was part of the sculpture event in
242-607: The Gilbert Bayes Award for early career sculptors. Walter Bayes Walter John Bayes (31 May 1869 – 21 January 1956) was an English painter and illustrator who was a founder member of both the Camden Town Group and the London Group and also a renowned art teacher and critic. Bayes was born in St Pancras, London , the second of four children to Alfred Walter Bayes, a painter and etcher who exhibited regularly at
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#1732851403662264-583: The art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics . Bayes is perhaps best remembered for his interest in colour, his association with the Royal Doulton Company, and his work in polychrome ceramics and enamelled bronze. His 1939 major polychrome stonework frieze, Pottery through the Ages at the Doulton Headquarters in London was removed in the 1960s when the building was razed, and the 50 foot long work
286-471: The first Allied Artist's Association exhibition Bayes met Walter Sickert , who invited him to attend the regular weekly meetings of the Fitzroy Street Group . When the Camden Town Group was formed in 1911, Bayes was ideally placed to become one of its founding members, as they also met frequently at Sickert's studio. Bayes exhibited work at all three Camden Town Group exhibitions and, in 1913, became
308-1654: The old-school academic art shown at the Royal Academy. For a time, the NEAC was seen as a stepping-stone to Royal Academy membership. Today the NEAC continues in a realistic, figurative style, while the Royal Academy has embraced abstract and conceptual art. NEAC members include Peter Brown , Frederick Cuming , Anthony Green , Ken Howard , Charles Williams , Richard Bawden and Martin Yeoman . Historic NEAC members and exhibitors include: Thomas Kennington (founder member and first secretary), Prof Fred Brown (founder member), Frank Bramley (foundation member), Walter Sickert , William Orpen , Augustus John , Gwen John , Ambrose McEvoy , Philip Wilson Steer , Henry Tonks , James Whitelaw Hamilton , Alfred William Rich , James Dickson Innes , Margaret Preston , Charles Wellington Furse , Katie Edith Gliddon , Ethel Walker , Fairlie Harmar , William Rothenstein , Lindsay Bernard Hall , Thomas Cooper Gotch , Mary Sargant Florence , Henry Strachey , Clare Atwood , Evelyn Dunbar , Eve Garnett , Frank McEwen , James Jebusa Shannon , Cecil Mary Leslie , Mary Elizabeth Atkins , William Brown Macdougall , Neville Bulwer-Lytton, 3rd Earl of Lytton , Muirhead Bone , Robert Polhill Bevan , Dugald Sutherland MacColl , Neville Lewis , Charles Holmes , Carron O Lodge , Geoffrey Tibble , Alexander Mann , Hercules Brabazon Brabazon , Thomas Esmond Lowinsky , Frank Hughes , Albert Julius Olsson , Helen Margaret Spanton , Margaret Green and Leslie Donovan Gibson . The NEAC
330-573: The war Bayes was a prolific contributor to the Recording Britain scheme, producing numerous views of interior locations that often focused on leisure activities and people eating and drinking. He produced 29 watercolours of London for the project, 23 of Essex and 20 of other areas, including seven drawings of Oxford. In 1944 Bayes became Director of Painting at Lancaster School of Arts and Crafts, finally retiring in 1949, aged eighty. New English Art Club The New English Art Club ( NEAC )
352-710: The work and in 1886 began to take evening classes at the City and Guilds of London Institute in Finsbury before studying full-time at the Westminster School of Art . In 1894 he spent a short period of time studying at the Academie Julian in Paris. By the turn of the century Bayes had already exhibited a landscape painting at the Royal Academy, in 1890, and had exhibited at the New English Art Club in 1892. Later during
374-405: Was G. P. Jacomb-Hood . An early name suggested for the group was the 'Society of Anglo-French Painters', which gives some indication of their origins. As a note in the catalogue to their first exhibition explained, 'This Club consists of 50 Members, who are more or less united in their art sympathies. They have associated themselves together with the view of holding an Annual Exhibition, hoping that
396-691: Was appointed Principal of the Westminster School of Art, a post he was to hold until 1934. From 1927 to 1939 Bayes was a lecturer in Perspective at the Royal Academy Schools and when he left Westminster in 1934 he continued teaching as a visiting lecturer at Reading University until 1937. Early in World War II Bayes submitted works to the War Artists' Advisory Committee for purchase but
418-785: Was founded in London in 1885 as an alternative venue to the Royal Academy . It holds an annual exhibition of paintings and drawings at the Mall Galleries in London, exhibiting works by both members and artists from Britain and abroad whose work has been selected from an annual open submission. Young English artists returning from studying art in Paris mounted the first exhibition of the New English Art Club in April 1886. Among them were William Laidlay , Thomas Cooper Gotch , Frank Bramley , John Singer Sargent , Philip Wilson Steer , George Clausen and Stanhope Forbes . Another founding member
440-571: Was one of four children and brother to both the well-known artist and critic Walter Bayes , and to the Arts & Crafts designer Jessie Bayes . Gilbert Bayes studied at the City and Guilds of London Art School and then at the Royal Academy Schools between 1896 and 1899, where he won a gold medal and a travelling scholarship to Paris. Bayes' lengthy and illustrious career began as a student under Sir George Frampton and Harry Bates , and so became associated with
462-507: Was re-located to the Victoria and Albert Museum . He also designed a number of war memorials, with public works throughout the former British Empire, from New South Wales to Bangalore. In 1896, Bayes was elected to the Art Workers' Guild , and in 1925 was elected to the position of Master. Bayes served as president of the Royal British Society of Sculptors , PRBS, from 1939 through 1944, and of
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#1732851403662484-401: Was refused. In May 1942, however WAAC offered Bayes a short commission to produce a large oil painting on the subject of the air raids that had resulted in damage to parts of Buckingham Palace in 1940 and 1941. The resulting painting, Battle of Britain: Parachutists from an enemy aircraft brought down in an apparent attempt to bomb Buckingham Palace , led to further war-time commissions. During
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