A portrait of a Miss B. The photographer married Anna Correy Smith, b. 10 Oct. 1868, on 7 Sept. 1893. Could this be a portrait of the artist’s future spouse?

Henry Paul Baily: 1868-1945

A graduate of Haverford College outside Philadelphia, where he was captain of the college Cricket Team in 1889 and 1890, Baily went into the family wholesale dry-goods business based in Philadelphia and New York the same year he graduated in 1890. In 1904, when this photograph appeared in DKIDP, Baily exhibited in the Washington D.C. Photographic Salon as a member of the Capital Camera Club. In the July, 1904 issue of the Photographic Times-Bulletin: 

H. P. Baily, Philadelphia, attracted much attention with his fancy “Jean d’Arc.” A kneeling female figure, clad in mail, is raising the hilt of a sword towards the light, which radiates in streamers over it and her face. The idea is excellent, but its presentation just a bit too theatrical to be altogether what it should be. (p. 294)