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Bust of John Bayley or Baily. SM M599. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: John Bridges
Bust of John Bayley or Baily (fl. 1821-25)
Plaster
Height: 52.5cm
Width: 26cm
Depth: 25cm
Width: 26cm
Depth: 25cm
Museum number: M599
Curatorial note
John Bayley (or Baily or Bailey), worked for Soane as a plasterer on several projects in the 1820s but may have been active as early as 1769.
In 1821-23 archive bills record that he was worked on the rebuilding of Wotton House, Buckinghamshire, rebuilt by Soane after a devastating fire.
Soane Museum model HR4 was made by plasterers Thomas Palmer and John Bayley, in 1825. The firms of Thomas Palmer and Robson and Estall were regular plasterers for Soane.
In 1821-23 archive bills record that he was worked on the rebuilding of Wotton House, Buckinghamshire, rebuilt by Soane after a devastating fire.
Soane Museum model HR4 was made by plasterers Thomas Palmer and John Bayley, in 1825. The firms of Thomas Palmer and Robson and Estall were regular plasterers for Soane.
Literature
Geoffrey Beard, Jeff Orton and Richard Ireland, Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain, 2015
Associated objects
HR4, made by
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