Alfred Charles BAILEY
Born in Brighton, the artist studied there and in St Ives under Louis GRIER, but was largely self-taught. Bailey lived in St Ives from 1909-1919, though he is recorded as exhibiting three paintings also at the 1924 Show Day. All of the latter exhibits were watercolours, with the subjects showing the herring season, a summer evening in Bosham, and a view of the wharf at Polperro. Working from the Atlantic Studio, St Ives, virtually all of his paintings were in watercolour after 1915.
Living in Chelsea by 1938, he continued to send in to STISA shows until he moved to Richmond, Surrey after WWII.
media
Painter of landscapes and marine subjects in watercolour
works and access
Works include: Back street St Ives; A Village in France; A French Chateau; St Ives; Dusk (1920); The Cornfield; Nocturne, St Ives; A Studio Corner (1923)
exhibitions
GOU; LS NBA; RED
STISA Show Days, St Ives 1909, Mar 1911, Mar 1912, Mar 1913, Mar 1914, Mar 1915, Mar 1917, Mar 1924
With STISA Touring: Brighton 1932, Lincoln 1934, Birmingham & Cheltenham 1936
Lanham's June1919, March 1919, September 1920
International Exhibition, London 1919
Harris & Sons Galleries. Plymouth October 1920
RCPS 1920
memberships
STISA 1927-1943
STIAC (Hon Librarian 1920-21)
references
Cornish Telegraph 25 Mar 1909
St Ives Times 25 Mar 1911, 22 Mar 1912, 28 Mar 1913, 27 Mar 1914, 19 Mar 1915, 29 Jun 1917, 14 Mar 1919, 12 Sep 1919, 20 Feb 1920, 5 Mar 1920, 16 Apr 1920 [from WMN], 18 Jun 1920, 24 Sep 1920, 5 Nov 1920, 23 Mar 1923, 7 Mar 1924, 14 March 192, 21 Mar 1924
Benezit
Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall (p312)
Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of British Artists
Tovey (2000) GF Bradshaw & STISA (Appendix 3: Principal Members of STISA 1927-1960); (2003) Creating a Splash; (2009) St Ives Social History
Tovey (2010) Sea Change, St Ives 1914-1930
The Year's Art;
Whybrow (1994) St Ives (1901-10 list pp 213-4)