professional photographer, was born in Hadleigh, Suffolk in 1850, son of Charles Bayliss. Charles junior arrived at Melbourne in 1854 and completed Henry Beaufoy Merlin 's exhibition for Holtermann in the 1870s. He continued to work for Holtermann throughout the 1870s. He married Sarah Christianna Salier c.1883. Died Sydney 4 June 1897 ( Biographical Register ).

The NSW exhibits at the 1883-84 Calcutta International Exhibition included – no.1 Bayliss, Charles, 348 George-street, Sydney – Landscape Photography … Addenda – withdrawals – Bayliss, C. (Class i) Landscape Photographs. Also Commissioners for NSW exhibits – Panoramic view of Sydney, prepared for the Commission by Mr C. Bayliss, of George-street, Sydney, and taken by the photographer from the Cupola of the Dome of the Garden Palace, prior to the opening of the Sydney International Exhibition of 1879.

At the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London the NSW exhibits included 'no.50 Holtermann, B.O., M.P., the Trustees of the late, 674 George-street, Sydney – Large Panoramic View of Sydney and Harbour [by Bayliss]’. Copies of Bayliss’s Album of Photographs of the Sydney Exhibition Building and Other Sydney Buildings (1879) are in various public collections, including the NLA (album 129).

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Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011