Edwin Butler Bayliss
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Edwin Butler Bayliss (1874–1950),[1] was an English artist based in the Black Country, famous for his realistic and unsentimental paintings of industrial sites in the area.
Edwin was born in Wolverhampton, on Merridale Road, the eldest son of Samuel Bayliss (b. 1848, an industrialist and director of the firm Bayliss, Jones and Bayliss[2]) and Emma Bayliss (née Butler, b.1849).[3] He spent his childhood in Finchfield and Tettenhall, Wolverhampton.[3][4] From twelve he attended the Rydal Mount School (now named the Rydal Penrhos School), a boarding school in Colwyn Bay, Wales[4] where he became a prefect.
Return to the Black Country
At eighteen he returned to his family's large house in Tettenhall, The Woodhouse. He joined his father's manufacturing firm, but at twenty-seven he had left to pursue his artistic ambitions.[3][4] He painted works inspired by scenes from both his father's iron foundry and the steel works of Sir Alfred Hickman, 1st Baronet, who was a friend of his father's.[3][4]
