C. E. Baker

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher who appears to have specialised in animal paintings. C.E. Baker, a possible relative of artist George A. Baker, is known to have exhibited twice with the South Australian Society of Arts, in 1864 and 1870, winning prizes both times.

sketcher, received the prize for the best original drawing of a horse in the South Australian Society of Arts eighth annual exhibition at Adelaide in December 1864. The South Australian Advertiser objected to the award because Baker’s A Horse’s Head was a copy of the head of a horse in Rosa Bonheur’s Horse Fair , 'besides which we submit that a drawing of a horse’s head is not a drawing of a horse’. Baker’s drawing of a greyhound was exhibited at the same time. At the society’s 1870 exhibition Baker won the prize for 'a pen and ink drawing; original or copy’. He or she was probably related to George A. Baker .

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011