About Oliver Baker
Lived 1856 – 1939 (aged 82–83). Oliver Baker was a British jewelry designer, painter, printmaker and gallerist.
Oliver Baker (1856–1939) was an English painter, etcher, designer and silversmith, best known for his role in the development of the Cymric Silverware line for Liberty & Co.
Baker was born in Birmingham, the son of the artist Samuel Henry Baker. He studied under his father, with whom he shared a studio in Edgbaston, and at the Birmingham School of Art. He exhibited at the Royal Academy frequently from 1883 and was elected a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in 1884.
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Who was Oliver Baker?
British artist (1856–1939)
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Oliver Baker was born in 1856 in Birmingham.
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Oliver Baker died in 1939 in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Oliver Baker was a jewelry designer, painter, printmaker and gallerist.
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