Gilbert Bayes

Gilbert William Bayes (4 April 1872 – 10 July 1953) was an English sculptor.[1] Bayes 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.[2]

Gilbert William Bayes
Born(1872-04-04)4 April 1872
London, England
Died10 July 1953(1953-07-10) (aged 81)
Marylebone, London
NationalityBritish
Education
Known forSculpture

Career

The Queen of Time, Selfridges, London, 1928
Destiny, war memorial, Albion Gardens, Ramsgate, Kent, 1920
Prehistoric Period
Classic period
National Museum Cardiff, 19141915

Bayes was born in London into a family of artists, his father being Alfred Walter Bayes, an established artist at the time. He 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.[3][2] Bayes' lengthy and illustrious career began as a student under Sir George Frampton and Harry Bates,[4] and so became associated with the British New Sculpture movement and its focus on architectural sculpture. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London from 1889 and later at the Paris Salon.[3] In Paris, Bayes won an honourable mention at the 1900 International Exhibition, then several medals at the Salon and, in 1925, a gold medal and diploma of honour at the Exhibition of Decorative Art.[5] His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.[6]

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 re-located to the Victoria and Albert Museum.[2][7] He also designed a number of war memorials, with public works throughout the former British Empire, from New South Wales to Bangalore.

Bayes served as President of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, PRBS, from 1939 through 1944, and of the Ealing Art Group from 1947–1953. He died in London in 1953.[3] Bayes' home at 4 Greville Place in St. John's Wood bears a blue plaque placed by English Heritage in 2007.[8]

Personal life

In 1906, Bayes married Gertrude Smith, a fellow sculptor, in Farnham, Surrey. They had two children:

  • Eleanor Jean Gilbert Bayes (1908–1999), also an artist
  • Geoffrey Gilbert Bayes (1912–2001)

Works

References

  1. Ian Chilvers (2004). The Oxford Dictionary of Art. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0 19 860476 9.
  2. University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Gilbert William Bayes HRI, PRBS". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  3. Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1 85149 106 6.
  4. Public sculpture of Glasgow By Raymond McKenzie, Gary Nisbet
  5. David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0 953260 95 X.
  6. "Gilbert Bayes". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  7. "Pottery through the Ages". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  8. "BAYES, GILBERT (1931-1953)". English Heritage. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
  9. John Newman (1995). Glamorgan. The Buildings of Wales. London: Penguin. p. 228.
  10. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1430450
  11. AGNSW Catalogue references Offerings of Peace and Offerings of War
  12. "First World War Commemorations At Home". Newfoundland & Labrador in the First World War. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  13. "SEGRAVE TROPHY". The Sydney Morning Herald (29, 477). 25 June 1932. p. 9. Retrieved 14 December 2017 via National Library of Australia.
  14. "SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE". The Mercury. CXXXVI (20, 222). Tasmania. 1 June 1932. p. 3. Retrieved 14 December 2017 via National Library of Australia.
  15. Roland Jeffery, Housing Happenings in Somers Town in Housing the Twentieth Century Nation, Twentieth Century Architecture No 9, 2008, ISBN 978-0-9556687-0-8
  16. BBC Broadcasting House reliefs
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