Wyke Bayliss

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Sir Wyke Bayliss (1835 in Shropshire-1906) was a notable British painter, author and poet. He almost exclusively painted interiors of British and European churches and cathedrals. He was known in the late Victorian era as an academic authority on art. He was affiliated with the Pre-Raphaelites, and he counted amongst his friends John Millais, Frederic Leighton, William Holman Hunt and Edward Burne-Jones. He succeeded James McNeill Whistler as president of the Royal Society for British Artists in 1887 as part of a split in the organisation between the more detailed and the more impressionist painters. He held the post until his death in 1906.

Bayliss' autobiography, called "Olives", was posthumously published in 1906 . He married Elise Letitia Broade, but never had children. They lived together at Clapham Park in London.