Please note: Artists not classified as American in our database may have limited biographical data
compared to the extensive information about American artists.
Born in the village of Lumbutts, near Todmorden, (a town in which in those days lay astride the border of Lancashire & Yorkshire).
A painter in oil colors, (of genre, portraits, biblical subjects, landscapes and angling scenes), etcher and engraver.
He was the son of enlightened parents, Cordwainer, William Bayes (1799-1851) and Hannah (nee Uttley, 1788-1856) who formed their own school and museum in a purpose built building behind their house in Lumbutts. Hann (showing 500 of 1303 characters). |