Ernest Joseph Bailly

Ernest Joseph Bailly, (or Baillu,) who was born at

. In 1792 he was awarded a prize, at the Academy of Ghent, for his Œdipus Coloneus, and in 1811 he received a gold medal for an Allegory on the Birth of the King of Rome; both of these works he presented to the Society of Art and Literature of Ghent. He died in that city in 1823.

Bailly devoted himself much to decorative paintings on walls, wainscots, and furniture, in which branch of art he became very famous.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Baillu, Ernest Joseph". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.