William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this piece to the Victorian era.
Title: Barnard Castle, Durham". Circa 1880.
Signed. Inscribed with the title, artist's name and his address: 113 Wheeley's Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Oil on canvas.
Size: 16"x 25". Framed size: 22"x 31".
Now in very good ready to hang condition. Free UK delivery.
Samuel Henry Baker (1824–1909) was an English landscape artist.
He painted rural landscape scenes in oils watercolours.
Samuel Henry Baker was born in Birmingham, the son of Thomas Baker who was a manager at Matthew Boulton’s Soho Works. He was apprenticed to James Chaplin, a magic-lantern slide painter and trained at Birmingham School of Design. He also took lessons from the landscape painter, Joseph Paul Pettitt who had been a pupil of Joseph Vincent Barber. It was possibly through Pettit that Baker inherited the distinctive drawing style of the Birmingham School with its clear outlines and bold cross hatching. He exhibited over five hundred paintings at the RBSA from 1848–1909 and was elected a member in 1868.
His older son Oliver (1856–1939) was also an artist and a designer of note, while his younger son Harold (1860-1942) was a noted photographer.
William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this piece to the Victorian era.
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Samuel H. Baker. "Barnard Castle, Durham". Oil Painting Landscape.
