Early Life and the Black Country Landscape Edwin Butler Bayliss, a name perhaps less familiar than some of his contemporaries, nevertheless holds a significant place in British art history as a keen observer and powerful interpreter of the industrial heartland of England. Born in 1874 in Wolverhampton, to Samuel Bayliss, an influential industrialist, and Emma Bayliss (née Butler), he was steeped in both wealth and the burgeoning dynamism of the Black Country from his earliest years. His childhood home, The Woodhouse in Tettenhall, provided a backdrop of privilege and observation – a vantage…