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BALDRY, Alfred Lys was born in 1858 in Torquay. Son of Alfred Baldry, Bournemouth.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...is a study of one of the two sleeping girls in "Dreamers," it is a third and wakened one that is represented in "Rose Leaves." She is lightly wrapped in folds of the thinnest white muslin, and lounges on a creamy white sofa embroidered with purple, pale red, yellow, green, and black. There are loose pieces of pale rose pink drapery on the sofa by her side and fastened to the brown and white patterned wall behind her head. A white fan is at her left hand, and at her feet a pink rug with centre of purple, pale green, and white, on which stands a white jar ornamented with lines of yellow-brown, and holding white flowers and sprigs of yellow mimosa. In her fair hair is a yellow rose, and some rose petals lie on the brown and white marble floor to the left of the rug. Two or three other versions of the "Rose Leaves" subject exist. The pose of the figure is the same in them all, but the colour schemes vary. "A Siesta," for instance, is in red and white, while " Musk" is in orange, yellow, green, and white--yellow drapery, orange cap, green couch and wall, and festoons of white on the wall and about the seat; small touches of other colours are introduced in the necklace of red and white beads, in the red, brown, and white squares with which the floor is inlaid, and in the green, orange, and black mat. A small upright picture, "Anemones," an especially excellent example of mellow colour and deft brushwork, also belongs to this year. It is a white and yellow study, a female figure standing in the thinnest white gauze, through which the tints of the flesh tell strongly, partly wrapped round with thicker drapery of buttercup yellow, and relieved against a background of pale yellow-brown, spotted with white an...
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BALDRY, Alfred Lys was born in 1858 in Torquay. Son of Alfred Baldry, Bournemouth.
Studied at University of Oxford. Art education: Scholarship at South Kensington School of Art in 1877. Then pupil of Albert Moore for about four years.
Exhibited pictures early in the eighties, and still a constant exhibitor in London and provincial galleries. Art critic of the Globe, 1893-1908. Stage-managed Faddimir, 1889, first production of Adrian Ross and F. O. Carr.
In 1891 first production in England of Ibsen’s Rosmersholm, and same year, John Todliunter’s Sicilian Idyll, and Poison Flower, all at Vaudeville. Artist (painter).
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