By: BAYES, Walter (1869-1956)

Acq. Number: 2

Dimensions: 32.5 x 37 cm

Artwork_Medium: oil on board

Purchased: 1938

Buyer: Contemporary Art Society – gift

Location: Bankfield Museum, Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council

Town: Halifax

Content: This work is shown on Art UK 

Notes: Walter Bayes, the son of painter and etcher Alfred Walter Bayes, was an artist, art critic and writer. With his friend Walter Sickert, Bayes was a founder member the Camden Town Group of painters. From 1918 to 1934 he was the principal of the Westminster School of Art; David Jones (1895 - 1974) was one of his students.