Gladys Marguerite Baker

Gladys Marguerite Baker (14 October 1889 – 1974) was a British portrait painter.

Biography Baker was born in the St Pancras district of London to Sarah Jane née Rudman and Joseph Baker, a warehouse worker and later a clothing manufacturer, who together had nine children. She was educated at Queen's College and then studied at the St John's Wood Art School before entering the Royal Academy Schools. There Baker won a Graphic Prize and a silver medal for composition in colour. Baker lived in London throughout her life, at Tavistock Square then Finchley and finally in Barnet.