Gilbert William Bayes HRI, PRBS
Born 4 April 1872
Died 10 July 1953
Active: 1889 - 1953
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, designer, medallist, teacher
Born in London. He was the son of Alfred Walter Bayes (1832-1909), a painter and etcher and brother of the the painters Walter Bayes (1869-1956) and Jessie Bayes (1878-1970). Gilbert was first sent to work in the City for a firm of tie and cravat merchants. He then studied art at Finsbury Technical College (1891-6) and the Royal Academy Schools (1896-9). He won the Royal Academy gold medal and travelling scholarship in 1899 and went to Paris. Here his bronze relief of 'Jason Ploughing the Acre of Mars' (1900) won an honourable mention at the Universal Exposition (1900).
Bayes was a prolific sculptor working on a small scale as a medallist as well as creating large monuments and equestrian statues, such as 'Offerings of War' and 'Offerings of Peace' (1918–26) which are in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. He was also a highly accomplished designer and amongst the wide range of objects he created were chessmen, caskets, cabinets, and mirrors. Many of his sculptures incorporated colourful techniques and processes such as mosaic, enamel, and glazes alongside more traditional materials like bronze.
During the 1920s and 1930s he expanded his range of materials to include Doulton's polychrome stoneware, concrete and artificial stone. The most important of Bayes's works in ceramic were his 'History of Pottery through the Ages' (1939), a frieze for Doulton House, Lambeth Embankment, London which is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the extensive polychrome architectural decorations he undertook for the Sidney Street Estate. This last is now known as the Sidney Estate and lies west of Chalton Street (architect Ian B. Hamilton, 1929-39). However, Bayes's most prominent and best known work is the 'Queen of Time' clock at Selfridges, London (1930), though he also made other clocks including the 'Four Seasons' clock and fairytale lunette panels (1937) for the Sidney Street estate.
He was a very active and widely respected member of the Art Workers Guild and served as president of the Royal Society of British Sculptors between 1939 and 1944. Bayes was not elected to the Royal Academy (despite repeated nominations) but was awarded a gold medal at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français in 1939. He died in the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, Marylebone, London.
Wealth at death: £9,976 3s. 9d.
Probate date: 6 October 1953
Works
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Jason Ploughing with the Bulls of Aeson
Statuette: Royal Horse Artillery
Tam O' Shanter: design in wax for tailboard of sloop: 'The Grey Mare'
Model of Oak Newel Post for Poultry Court
The Modelled Caps to the Piers: (a) Hercules; (b) Theseus; (c) Perseus; (d) Jason
Portrait Bust of Past-Master W. R. Lethaby
Statuette: Royal Horse Artillery
Artillery Horses: Full Gallop
1888 (Presumed)
Artillery Horses: The Fall
1888 (Presumed)
A Chariot Accident
1889 (Presumed)
Pets
1890
'Encore!'
1890 (Presumed)
A Farmer Went Trotting Upon His Grey Mare
1892 (Presumed)
A Favourite Watering Place
1892 (Presumed)
The End of the Furrow
1893 (Presumed)
A Sea Frolic
1893 (Presumed)
Pandora
1894 (Presumed)
In the Tilt Yard
1894 (Presumed)
Shewing his Points
1895 (Presumed)
The Mermaid's Song
1895 (Presumed)
The Raiders
1896 (Presumed)
Vanity
1897 (Presumed)
The Banner of the Faithful
1898 (Presumed)
The Valkyries
1899 (Presumed)
Under the Sea
1899 (Presumed)
Night
1899 (Presumed)
The Sirens of the Ford
1900 (Presumed)
Sea Horses
1900 (Presumed)
The Dragon Slayer
1900 (Presumed)
Mother and Child
1900 (Presumed)
Jason ploughing the acre of Mars
1901
March Winds
1901 (Presumed)
£5 5s.
Diana's Tryste
1901 (Presumed)
£5 5s.
Under the Moon
1901 (Presumed)
Oak Cabinet with Relief Panel and Figures
1901 (Presumed)
At the Top of the Hill
1902 (Presumed)
The Invocation
1903 (Presumed)
The Crown of War
1908 (Presumed)
Under the Moon
1910 (Presumed)
Standing Mirror
1910 (Presumed)
Model of the Great Seal of His Most Gracious Majesty King George V
1911 (Presumed)
A Greek Dancer
1911 (Presumed)
The invocation
1913
The Angel of the off Shore Wind
1913 (Presumed)
£18 18s.
Romance
1915 (Presumed)
£210
Study
1915 (Presumed)
On the Wings of the Wind
1915 (Presumed)
£10 10s.
At Close of Day
1915 (Presumed)
£63
Artemis
1916 (Presumed)
£150
Youth
1916 (Presumed)
£10 10s.
Sigurd
1917
The underworld
1917
A Greek Dancer
1917 (Presumed)
An Italian Wine Cart
1917 (Presumed)
£15 15s.
Young Diana
1917 (Presumed)
£10 10s.
The Underworld
1918 (Presumed)
£18 18s.
Sigurd
1919 (Presumed)
£157 10s.
Anatkh
1919 (Presumed)
£36 15s.
The Wealth of the Earth
1920 (Presumed)
£63
Comrades
1921 (Presumed)
£47 5s.
St George
1921 (Presumed)
£126
The Angel Militant
1921
The Greek Dancer
1921
A Bacchante
1922 (Presumed)
£63
The Unknown
1922 (Presumed)
£42
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
1923 (Presumed)
£262 10s.
A Roman Wine Cart
1923 (Presumed)
£26 5s.
Romance
1924
St George
1924
A Fountain Figure
1924 (Presumed)
£68 5s.
A Study
1924 (Presumed)
£26 5s.
The philosopher
1925
The Lily Maid
1926 (Presumed)
£52 10s.
The Sea King's Daughter
1926 (Presumed)
£63
An Italian Wine Cart
1926
Fountain figure
1927
The spirit of the streams
1927
The Bather
1927 (Presumed)
£26 5s.
Brynilde
1928
The Water Baby
1928 (Presumed)
£8 8s.
The Philosopher
1928 (Presumed)
£8 8s.
The Guardian
1928 (Presumed)
£105
Bacchante
1929
Diana
1929 (Presumed)
£105
The Moon and the Lotus Pond
1931 (Circa)
Wisdom
1933
The wings of wind
1935
The water's caress
1935
The Lily Maid
1935 (Circa)
Diana
1937 (Circa)
The Frog Princess
1937
Wisdom
1938
Contentment
1938
Commerce
1938
A Portion of the Saville Frieze
1938
The Lure of the Pipes of Pan
1938
Water's Caress
1938
Sigurd
1939
Sir William Whitla
1948
Locations
Address 21 Adelaide Road London | View on map
1881 (Circa)
Address 82 Fellows Road London NW | View on map
1888 (Presumed) - 1906
This address listed alongside Linden Gardens address in 1904 ACES membership list.
Address 42 Linden Gardens Notting Hill Gate London W | View on map
1901 (Presumed) - 1905 (Presumed)
This address given alongside Fellows Road address in 1904 ACES membership list.
Address 40 Boundary Road St John's Wood London NW8 | View on map
1908 (Presumed) - 1932
Address 4 Greville Place London NW6 | View on map
1931 - 1953
Born at 6 Oval Road Gloucester Road London | View on map
4 April 1872
Died at Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth Marylebone London | View on map
10 July 1953
Studio located at 52 Rathbone Place Oxford Street London | View on map
1899 (Circa) - 1901 (Circa)
Address given with the prefix 'The Studio'
Worked at County Hall Westminster Bridge Road London | View on map
October 1909
One of three artists invited to submit models for the mooring-rings or 'dolphins' in 1909, the others being Courtney Pollock and Hubert Paton. Bayes's design was selected. He was also the designated sculptor of six bronze groups for County Hall which were postponed in 1915 and never reinstated. In 1931 he modelled the memorial plaque in the Members' Courtyard to the architect of County Hall, Ralph Knott (1878-1929).
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Second Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1899
'Jason Ploughing with the Bulls of Aeson'
Exhibited at Third Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1901
'At the Top of the Hill'
Exhibited at Fifth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1905
'The Gallopers'
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: First Exhibition, 1888
'Artillery horses'
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Second Exhibition, 1889
'Model in wax for door-knocker'
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Sixth Exhibition, 1899
'Sea-Horses'
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Ninth Exhibition, 1910
'Portion of a memorial'
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Eleventh Exhibition, 1916
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Sixty-Second Autumn Exhibition, at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1888
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Sixty-Third Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society Artists), 1889
'A Chariot Accident'
Exhibited at The Sixty-Fourth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1890
'Pets'
Exhibited at The Sixty-Sixth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1892
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Sixty-Eighth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1894
'In the Tilt Yard'
Exhibited at The Sixty-Ninth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1895
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Sixty-Seventh Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Royal Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1893
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Seventieth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1896
'The Raiders '
Exhibited at The Thirty-Second Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1897
'Vanity'
Exhibited at The Seventy-Second Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1898
'The Banner of the Faithful'
Exhibited at The Thirty-Fourth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1899
'The Valkyries'
Exhibited at The Seventy-Third Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1899
'Under the Sea'
Exhibited at The Thirty-Fifth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1900
'The Sirens of the Ford'
Exhibited at The Seventy-Fourth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1900
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Thirty-sixth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1901
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Seventy-Sixth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1902
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Seventy-Seventh Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1903
'The Invocation'
Exhibited at The Eighty-Second Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1908-1909
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Forty-Fifth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1910
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Eighty-Fifth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1911-1912
'A Greek Dancer '
Exhibited at The Thirty-Fifth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1900
'Mother and Child'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1898
'The Fountain'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1897
'Pandora'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1902
'At the Top of the Hill'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1904
'The Invocation'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Eleventh Autumn Exhibition, 1893
'An Idyll'
Exhibited at The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers Exhibition (Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery), 1905
'Statuette: Royal Horse Artillery'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Twenty-First Autumn Exhibition, 1903
'A Knight'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Third, 1929
'Bacchante'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-Seventh, 1913
'The invocation'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-First, 1917
'Sigurd'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Eighth, 1924
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Ninth, 1925
'The sea king's daughter'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-First, 1927
'Fountain figure'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Second, 1928
'The guardian of the seas'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Sixth, 1932
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Ninth, 1935
'The water's caress'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Thirteenth, 1939
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Seventieth Annual Exhibition, 1931
'The Moon and the Lotus Pond'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1935
'The Lily Maid'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1933
'Wisdom'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1937
Multiple works
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1921
Multiple works
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1926
'An Italian Wine Cart'
Exhibited at Art Workers Guild, Third Exhibition, 1905
Exhibited at Exhibition of The Ulster Academy of Arts, 1948
1948
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1889 - 1952
Exhibited 57 times, 1-2 works per year, about 130 works in all
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the twentieth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1890
1890
The Sea Maids' Frolic (cat. no. 1297, panel in wax, £5); The Pet of the Ring - 'Vox Populi' (cat. no. 1299, £8 8s.).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-first (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1891
1891
Encore (cat. no. 1260, modelled in wax, £12 12s.); The Last Load (cat. no. 1264, relief in plaster, £5 5s.).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1892
1892
Young Horses - Barnet Fair (cat. no. 1344, £10 10s.; Carting Sand in France (cat. no. 1380, relief, £5 5s.); The Goal (cat. no. 1385, frieze, £10 10s.).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-third (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1893
1893
Probable Starters (cat. no. 1206, wax, £15 15s.); Showing his Points (cat. no. 1208, wax, £12 12s.).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-fourth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1894
1894
The Ride of the Valkyries (cat. no. 1317, wax, not for sale).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-fifth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1895
1895
Vanity (cat. no. 1275, for sale in plaster £6 6s., in bronze £21); 'In the Tilt-yard, when the dust cleared from the sundered press of Knights' (cat. no. 1312).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-sixth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1896
1896
The Banners of the Faithful Relief (cat. no. 1169, metal relief, £15 15s.); The Seamaid's Song (cat. no. 1221, relief, £15 15s.).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-ninth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1899
1899
Knight Errant (cat. no. 1354, plaster statuette, not for sale, for sale in bronze for £73 10s.).
Exhibited at International Exhibition, Glasgow, 1901
1901
Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Annual Spring Exhibition for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, The Fifty-Sixth, 1901
1901
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the thirty-first (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1901
1901
The Invocation (cat. no. 1617, plaster statuette, for sale in bronze, £52 10s.); The Derelict (cat. no. 1635, metal relief, £18 18s.).
Exhibited at International Exhibition, Dublin, 1907
1907
British Sculpture, Gallery II: 'Pegasus', p. 23 (155); 'Jason Ploughing the Acre of Mars', p. 23 (158); 'For the Right', p. 26 (191a); 'Knight Roland', p. 26 (193); 'Aenaeus carrying his Father out of Troy', p. 28 (231). All works lent by the sculptor.
Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Annual Spring Exhibition for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, The Sixty-Eighth, 1913
1913
Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Annual Spring Exhibition for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, The Seventieth, 1915
1915
Also exhibited A Case of Medals (cat. no. 642).
Exhibited at The Seventy-First Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1916
1916
Exhibited at The Seventy-Second Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1917
1917
Exhibited at The Seventy-Third Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1918
1918
Exhibited at The Seventy-Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1919
1919
Exhibited at The Seventy-Fifth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1920
1920
Exhibited at The Seventy-Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1921
1921
Exhibited at The Seventy-Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1922
1922
Exhibited at The Seventy-Eighth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1923-4
2 October 1923 - 2 February 1924
Exhibited at The Seventy-Ninth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1924
1924
Exhibited at The Eighty-First Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1926-1927
1 November 1926 - 5 February 1927
Exhibited at The Eighty-Second Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1927-1928
31 October 1927 - 4 February 1928
Exhibited at The Eighty-Third Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1928-1829
29 October 1928 - 2 February 1929
Exhibited at The Eighty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1929-1930
4 November 1929 - 8 February 1930
Exhibited at Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition Scotland, 1938
1938
Exhibition committee member for Garden Designs Exhibition (Royal Horticultural Society), 1928
October 1928
Assistant Curator of the sculpture section of the exhibition
Exhibition committee member for United Artists' Exhibition (Royal Academy of Arts), 1939
1939
Representing the Royal Society of British Sculpture. He was responsible for arranging the sculpture display
Exhibition committee member for United Artists' Exhibition (Royal Academy of Arts), 1941
1941
Served on the General and Hanging Committees
Involved in Prize for the best work of sculpture exhibited in London
1925 - June 1926
Bayes designed the award medal presented to winning sculptors. It was completed by 1926.
Participant in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1929
Participant in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1934
Selection committee member of Lady Feodora Gleichen Fund (Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1922-1951
1938 - 1940
Speaker at Flaxman (Art Workers Guild), 1904
Speaker at The Consideration of Painting and Sculpture by Architects (Art Workers Guild), 1905
Speaker at Plaster Modelling (Art Workers Guild), 1906
Also gave practical demonstration.
Speaker at New Delhi and the Future of the Arts in India (Art Workers Guild), 1913
Speaker at Realism in Art (Art Workers Guild), 1913
Speaker at Seals (Art Workers Guild), 1913
Speaker at The Ornamental Use of Cast-Iron (Art Workers Guild), 1914
Speaker at The Horse in Design (Art Workers Guild), 1914
Speaker at Stone-carving (Art Workers Guild), 1915
Speaker at The Influence of Race, Climate and Diet on Artistic Expression (Art Workers Guild), 1915
Speaker at Horse-trappings (Art Workers Guild), 1915
Speaker at Railway Stations and their Approaches (Art Workers Guild), 1916
Speaker at Ships (Art Workers Guild), 1916
Speaker at Flower, Fruit and Leaf Forms in Decoration (Art Workers Guild), 1916
Speaker at Portraiture in Coins (Art Workers Guild), 1916
Speaker at Schemes of Ikonography (Art Workers Guild), 1917
Speaker at Byzantinism in Art (Art Workers Guild), 1917
Speaker at Art in Household Things (Art Workers Guild), 1917
Speaker at Craft and Media in Painting and Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1917
Speaker at Architects, Painters and Sculptors, and Schemes of Decoration (Art Workers Guild), 1917
Speaker at Historic Toys (Art Workers Guild), 1917
Speaker at Wayside Shrines and Crosses (Art Workers Guild), 1917
Speaker at War Memorials (Art Workers Guild), 1918
Speaker at The Stone Carver (Art Workers Guild), 1921
Speaker at Co-operation of the Architect and the Craftsman (Art Workers Guild), 1922
Speaker at The Art of Dressing and Presenting Food (Art Workers Guild), 1922
Speaker at American Sculptors (Art Workers Guild), 1922
Speaker at Castles, Gatehouses, Fortified Manors and Bridges (Art Workers Guild), 1922
Speaker at Gem or Hard Stone Carving (Art Workers Guild), 1922
Speaker at The Artistic Value of Japanese Lacquer (Art Workers Guild), 1923
Speaker at Architecture and the Press (Art Workers Guild), 1923
Speaker at Mestrovic and the Modern Spirit (Art Workers Guild), 1924
Speaker at Ivory carving (Art Workers Guild), 1924
Speaker at Harold Pyle and American Illustrators (Art Workers Guild), 1924
Speaker at Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1924
Speaker at Type Design and Typography / Value of Pattern in Art (Art Workers Guild), 1924
Speaker at Holbein drawings and influence on later works (Art Workers Guild), 1925
Speaker at Comparative Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1925
Speaker at Indian Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1925
Speaker at The National Portrait Gallery and its Future (Art Workers Guild), 1925
Speaker at Flower Painting (Art Workers Guild), 1925
Speaker at Persian Art (Art Workers Guild), 1925
Speaker at Translucent Glass for Decoration (Art Workers Guild), 1925
Speaker at European Bronzes (Art Workers Guild), 1925
Speaker at Geological Formation in Landscape (Art Workers Guild), 1925
Speaker at The Relation of the Arts to Literature (Art Workers Guild), 1925
Speaker at Italian Gardens (Art Workers Guild), 1926
Speaker at That Art Schools should be Abolished (Art Workers Guild), 1926
Speaker at Glazed Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1926
Speaker at Colour in Relation to Our Crafts (Art Workers Guild), 1926
Speaker at Origins of Portrait Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1927
Speaker at Flaxman (Art Workers Guild), 1927
Speaker at Wall Decoration (Art Workers Guild), 1927
Speaker at Rodin (Art Workers Guild), 1927
Speaker at A Sculptor's View of History (Art Workers Guild), 1928
Speaker at Rossettti and the Pre-Raphaelites (Art Workers Guild), 1928
Speaker at Bronze Casting (Art Workers Guild), 1928
Speaker at Art and Art Criticism (Art Workers Guild), 1928
Speaker at Daumier (Art Workers Guild), 1928
Speaker at Alfred Stevens (Art Workers Guild), 1928
Speaker at Ruskin Reconsidered (Art Workers Guild), 1929
Speaker at Animals in Art (Art Workers Guild), 1929
Speaker at Brancusi and Abstractionist Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1929
Speaker at Carpeaux and His Times (Art Workers Guild), 1929
Speaker at English Sculpture of the XVII and XVIII Century (Art Workers Guild), 1930
Speaker at Modern Architectural Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1930
Speaker at Colour in our Craft (Art Workers Guild), 1930
Speaker at Theatrical Scenery (Art Workers Guild), 1931
Speaker at Architecture Today and Tomorrow (Art Workers Guild), 1931
Speaker at Porcelain (Art Workers Guild), 1931
Speaker at Lesser Known Sculptors of Florence (Art Workers Guild), 1931
Speaker at Building and Sculpture in Concrete (Art Workers Guild), 1932
Speaker at The Artist and Scientist View of Truth (Art Workers Guild), 1932
Speaker at British Monumental Materials and Design (Art Workers Guild), 1932
Speaker at Convention or Realism in Stage Production (Art Workers Guild), 1932
Speaker at Sculpture, Carved and Modelled (Art Workers Guild), 1933
Speaker at The Craft of Shipbuilding (Art Workers Guild), 1933
Speaker at Glazed Pottery and Stoneware (Art Workers Guild), 1933
Speaker at The Art of Walt Disney (Art Workers Guild), 1934
Speaker at Ship Decoration (Art Workers Guild), 1934
Speaker at Is there a Philosophy of Art? (Art Workers Guild), 1934
Speaker at Sculpture on Buildings (Art Workers Guild), 1934
Speaker at Secrets of the Crafts (Art Workers Guild), 1934
Speaker at Publicity, Art and Morality (Art Workers Guild), 1934
Speaker at Stage Scenery (Art Workers Guild), 1934
Speaker at The Work of Recently Deceased Members (Art Workers Guild), 1935
Speaker at American Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1935
Speaker at Opportunities overlooked by the artist (Art Workers Guild), 1937
Speaker at Comparative Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1938
Speaker at The Work of Harold Pyle and its Influence (Art Workers Guild), 1938
Speaker at Modern Façades (Art Workers Guild), 1938
Speaker at Colour in Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1942
Speaker at The Work of Alfred Stevens (Art Workers Guild), 1945
Speaker at Bronze Founding (Art Workers Guild), 1945
Speaker at Tradition and (or versus) Individuality in Art (Art Workers Guild), 1923
Took part in Armature in Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1907
Took part in Annual Supper of the Guild (Art Workers Guild), 1914
'Mr Gilbert Bayes deserved especial praise for his cheery embodiment of a jester, the Master of Revels, in spite of the serious inconvenience of a broken arm' (AWG annual report, 1914, p. 6).
Took part in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1931
Took part in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1932
Won prize Landseer Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1884-1950
1898
Won prize Prize for the best work of sculpture exhibited in London
June 1931
Bayes won the award for his frieze 'Drama Throughout the Ages', which was 'placed upon the Saville Theatre, Shaftsbury Avenue', London.
Institutional and Business Connections
Advisor to Ministry of Town and County Planning/Ministry of Works and Buildings
1943 - 1944 (Presumed)
The Ministries 'invited the Guild to send a Deputation to them and consequently a Sub-Committee of five members, being the Master (Professor A. E. Richardson, ARA), Past-Master Laurence A. Turner, Past-Master Gilbert Bayes, Bro. Joseph Armitage and Bro. Anthony Gardner were elected by the Guild Committee as members of the Deputation and to consider the form that it should take'. Was part of sub-committee to answer questionnaire on 'Art Education' from the Central School of Art and Design, on behalf of the Guild, together with Harold Brownsword and Anthony Gardner [Sixtieth annual report of the committee of the Art Workers' Guild, p.2].
Donor to Art Workers Guild
1923
Gave bust of past-Master W. R. Lethaby in 1923 [AWG annual report for 1923, p.3].
Donor to Art Workers Guild
1929
Donated two books to Guild library: 'Spirit of American Sculpture' by Adeline Adams and 'Contemporary American Sculpture (author unspecified) [AWG annual report for 1929, p.5].
Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923 - 1953
Died in 1953.
Master of Art Workers Guild
1925 (Circa)
Master in 1925 and then again in January 1928 when, on the sudden death of Guild Master John Leighton (1926), he oversaw the welcome of F. Ernest Jackson to the chair for 1928 [AWG annual report for 1927, p.3]
Member of The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
1893 - 1920 (Presumed)
Elected in 1893. Listed as committee member in 1904.
Member of Art Workers Guild
November 1896 - 1953 (Presumed)
Member of committee from 1906-1908
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1905 - 1953
Amongst the second wave of those invited to join 'without further nomination' [2 March 1905, Royal Society of British Sculptors, Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I]. Died in 1953.
Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923 - 1935
Member of council The British School at Rome
1933
Representative of the Royal Society of British Sculptors from
Nominee of The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
1893
Membership proposed by George Frampton and seconded by Conrad Dressler.
President of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1938 - 1944
'Re-elected President' of the Society in 1942, according to the Fifty-nifth annual report of the committee of the Art Workers' Guild, p.7.
Bayes was forced to retire from this position due to a new rule that was passed in 1944, which stipulated that a five year limit should be imposed on the Presidency.
Received award from Salon of the Société des Artistes Français
1939
Awarded the Gold Medal [Fifty-sixth annual report of the Committee of the Art Workers' Guild, p.19].
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1896 (Circa) - 1899 (Presumed)
Forrer notes that Bayes trained at the City and Guilds' Technical College, and 'later the Royal Academy Schools (1896)'. See Forrer, vol. 7, (1923), p. 57.
In 1897, Bayes won a first prize of £30 for a model of a design. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1897', (1898), p. 31. The following year, Bayes won a first prize silver medal of £50 for a set of three models of a figure from the life, and a Landseer Scholarship for sculpture. See 'Annual Report, 1898', (1899), pp. 32-33. In 1899, he was awarded the gold medal and travelling scholarship of £200, for a composition in sculpture. See 'Annual Report, 1899', (1900), p. 36.
Teacher of modeling at Camberwell School of Art
September 1906 - July 1912
Listed as a teacher of day classes in 'Modelling - Life and Design'. From 1908 onwards Bayes is also listed as teacher of evening classes in life modelling. Bayes is last listed as a teacher in the 1911-1912 prospectus.
Unsuccessful in ballot for election to Royal Academy of Arts
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA], despite nominations in 1900, 1920, 1927, 1932, 1934 and 1941.
Vice-chairwoman/vice-chairman of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1924
Was vice-chairman of council meetings in 1924 [List of members, Royal Society of British Sculptors].
Vice-president of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1929 - 1937
Became president in 1938.
Personal and Professional Connections
Assistant was Ruby Levick
Assistant was Edith Davey
Assistant was Ruby Levick
Collaborated with Alfred James Oakley
1936
They worked together on the 'Unicorns in Battle' decorative panel for the RMS Queen Mary. [Stocker, 2004]
Made bust of William Richard Lethaby
1923 (Presumed)
Nominated by George James Frampton
8 January 1903
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Frederick William Pomeroy
January 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Francis Bernard Dicksee
27 February 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Frank Short
1 March 1920 - 22 February 1927
Two nominations for RA, in 1920 and 1927, both unsuccessful.
Nominated by Henry Scott Tuke
1 March 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by (Charles) Adrian (Scott) Stokes
1 March 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Reginald Theodore Blomfield
1 March 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by William Goscombe John
1 March 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by David Murray
1 March 1920 (Presumed)
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Charles Leonard Hartwell
1 March 1920 (Presumed) - 22 February 1927 (Presumed)
Two nominations for RA, in 1920 and 1927, both unsuccessful.
Nominated by Francis Bernard Dicksee
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by George Clausen
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Charles Leonard Hartwell
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by John James Burnet
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Philip Connard
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by William Llewellyn
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Walter Westley Russell
22 February 1927 - March 1941
Three nominations for Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA], from 1927-1941, all unsuccessful. Date of interim nomination not entered as 'start date' or 'end date': March 1934.
Nominated by Malcolm Osborne
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by George Harcourt
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by George James Frampton
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Giles Gilbert Scott
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Alfred Gilbert
7 November 1932
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Reginald Theodore Blomfield
7 November 1932
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Sydney Lee
March 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Alfred Turner
March 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Wilfred Gabriel de Glehn
March 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by George Spencer Watson
March 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by William McMillan
March 1934 - March 1941
Two nominations for Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA], both unsuccessful.
Nominated by William Curtis Green
March 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by William Russell Flint
March 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Charles Thomas Wheeler
March 1941
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Margaret J. Wrightson
For membership of the RSBS
Nominator of Ferdinand Victor Blundstone
1919 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominator of Allan Gairdner Wyon
1919 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominator of Richard Oliver Gross
1930 (Circa)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominator of (Hubert) Donald MacGeogh Gilbert
1931 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Portrayed in portrait by Meredith Frampton
1931
Presented by Frampton to the Art Workers' Guild for collection of portraits of Past-masters [AWG annual report for 1931, p.7].
Seconded by John William Waterhouse
8 January 1903
For RA; unsuccessful.
Talked about Alfred Gilbert
4 January 1935
At Art Workers' Guild meeting [see entry for event "The Work of Recently deceased members"].
Wife/husband/spouse to Gertrude Smith
1906
Worked with George Frederick Morris Harding
On stone carvings for Whitla Hall, Queen's University, Belfast.
Descriptions of Practice
Listed under Sculptors Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume VII, 1923 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a contemporary sculptor. Forrer notes that Bayes first exhibited at the Royal Academy when he was seventeen. Trained at the City and Guilds' Technical College, and the Royal Academy Schools (c. 1896). Forrer lists medallic works produced in 1904 and 1910 and a number of his commemorative medals. See Forrer, vol. 7, (1923), pp. 56-57.
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Merchantman Tie Cravat' and his brother 'Art Student' and father 'Artist Painter'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Artist Sculptor', his father and brother Walter both 'Artist Painter' (father 'Painter' crossed out and overwritten 'Sculp'), sisters Emmeline and Jessie respectively 'Dress Maker' and 'Artist Decorative'. A Philip Smith (born c.1879 in St Pancras), visitor, 'Art Student'.
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2010
Name: Gilbert William Bayes
Probate Date: 6 Oct 1953
Death Date: 10 Jul 1953
Death Place: London, England
Registry: London, England
Gilbert Bayes, sculptor, 1872–1953
1998
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1901
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1907
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p. 23, no. 155:'Pegasus'.
p. 23, no. 158:'Jason Ploughing the Acre of Mars'.
p. 26, no. 191a:'For the Right'
p. 26, no. 193:'Knight Roland'.
p. 28, no. 231:'Aenaeus carrying his Father out of Troy'.
All lent by the Sculptor.
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2008
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2004
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Empire Exhibition
Scotland
1938
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1938
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1906
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1927
p.161.
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1938
p.70.
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1961 (Circa)
p.13.
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19 May 1913
2 March 1905.
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2013
Name: Gelbert William Bayes
Age: 34
Birth Year: abt 1872
Marriage Date: 25 Jul 1906
Archive Provided Parish: Seale, St Lawrence
Parish as it Appears: Seale
Spouse: Gertrude Smith
Spouse Age: 36
Father: Alfred Walter Bayes
Spouse Father: William Smith
Reference Number: 7864/1/5
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1991
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1938
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1943
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1936
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1944
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1946
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Citing this record
'Gilbert William Bayes HRI, PRBS', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1203020390, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
