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EDWARD HODGES BAILY (1788-1867)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 221 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD HODGES BAILY (1788-1867)  ,
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British sculptor, was born at Bristol on the loth of March 1788 . His
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father, who was a celebrated carver of figureheads for
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ships, destined him for a commercial
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life, but even at school the boy showed his natural taste and remarkable talents by producing numerous
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wax
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models and busts of his schoolfellows, and afterwards, when placed in a mercantile house, still carried on his favourite employment . Two Homeric studies, executed for a friend, were shown to J . Flaxman, who bestowed on them such high commendation that in 1807 Baily came to
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London and placed himself as a pupil under the
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great sculptor . In 1809 he entered the academy
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schools . In 1811 he gained the academy gold medal for a model of " Hercules restoring Alcestis to
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Admetus," and soon after exhibited " Apollo discharging his Arrows against the Greeks " and " Hercules casting Lichas into the Sea." In 1821 he was elected R.A., and exhibited one of his best pieces, "
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Eve at the Fountain." He was entrusted with the
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carving of the bas-reliefs on the south side of the Marble Arch in Hyde Park, and executed numerous busts and statues, such as those of Nelson in Trafalgar Square, of
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Earl Grey, of Lord Mansfield and others . Baily died at Holloway on the 22nd of May 1867 .

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