Signed l.r.: Jessie Bayes

Tempera on board, 42 by 33.5 cm (16 ½ by 13 ¼ ins)

Bayes exhibited her first painting in tempera at the Royal Academy in 1935 – that work was also a floral still life. Jessie was from a talented artistic family that included her brothers, the painter Walter (see cat.xx) and the sculptor Gilbert Bayes (for a phototograph of the three siblings see fig 1. below). Their father was the painter Alfred Bayes. Jessie was a specialist in miniature painting, becoming a member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters in 1906. She also executed some fine work in illuminated manuscript and stained glass. Her work was highly decorative in quality and strongly influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement.