William Baillie (artist)

William Baillie (1752/3–Calcutta 1799) was a British artist working in India in the late 18th century.

[1] He went to India as a cadet in the Bengal Infantry in 1777, transferred to the Engineers in 1778 and participated in surveying work along the Hooghly River.

[3] In the same year he published his "Plan of Calcutta", a reduced version of a map made by Lt. Col. Mark Wood in 1784–5.

[6] A further set of eight prints "of the ruins of Gour and Rajmehal" was announced as completed in 1798, but no impressions have been traced.

[7] In a letter of 1795 he told his fellow-artist Ozias Humphry that he had wasted a lot of time painting landscapes, adding that "it is a pleasing pursuit, but not a pot-boiling one.