Alfred Lys Baldry Explained

Alfred Lys Baldry (1858 – 18 May 1939) was an English art critic and painter.^[1]

He was born in Torquay, Devon, the son of Alfred Baldry and Charlotte Whitehead.

Baldry studied at the University of Oxford and the Royal College of Art, and as a pupil of Albert Joseph Moore.^{[1] [2]} He exhibited works during the 1880s. Later he was Moore's biographer, this being an 1892 commission from Montague Marks, editor of Art Amateur. After Moore's death in 1893 he arranged an exhibition, with Walford Graham Robertson, of 100 of Moore's works.^{[3] [4]} He also wrote a biography of Hubert von Herkomer.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Book: H. L. Mallalieu . The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920. 1986. Antique Collectors' Club. 1-85149-025-6. 27.
2. [s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Baldry, Alfred Lys]
3. http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/biog/display/?bid=Bald_AL whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk, Alfred Lys Baldry, 1858-1939.
4. Book: Elizabeth Prettejohn. Elizabeth Prettejohn. After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Aestheticism in Victorian England. 1999. Manchester University Press. 978-0-7190-5406-8. 116.
5. Book: Wolfgang M. Freitag. Art Books: A Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists, Second Edition. 28 October 2013. Routledge. 978-1-134-83034-3. 170.