Samuel Henry Baker (1824–1909) was an English landscape artist. He was a member of the

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) is an art society, based in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, England, where it owns and operates an art gallery, the RBSA Gallery, on Brook Street, just off St Paul's Square, Birmingham, St Pa ...

(RBSA) and the

Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE), known until 1991 as the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, is a leading art institution based in London, England. The Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, as it was originally styled, was ...

(RE). He painted rural landscape scenes in

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. 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

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-slide painter and trained at the Birmingham School of Design. He also took lessons from the landscape painter, Joseph Paul Pettitt who had been a pupil of

Joseph Vincent Barber Joseph Vincent Barber (1788–1838), known as Vincent Barber, was an English landscape painter and art teacher. Born in Birmingham, the son of artist and drawing master Joseph Barber, he took over the running of his father's drawing academy in G ...

. 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 to 1909 and was elected a member in 1868. His older son

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(1856–1939) was also an artist and a designer of note, while his younger son Harold (1860-1942) was a noted photographer.Harold Baker Collection - Library of Birmingham
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List of works by S H Baker
19th-century English painters English male painters 20th-century English painters English watercolourists English landscape artists 1824 births 1909 deaths Members and Associates of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists 20th-century English male artists 19th-century English male artists Painters from Birmingham, West Midlands {{England-painter-stub