William Baker - Artist

William Baker (1863-1937) was a landscape painter in oil and watercolour, a Draughtsman and an illustrator. He was born in South Shields and worked in his father’s clothing shop before becoming a professional artist at the age of twenty. He soon developed a market and gave lessons in his studio. He used the Lake District and Scotland for his landscape scenes, and also portrayed scenes from South Shields, and in particular Cleadon, where he died.