Dominic Winter Auctions
Lot 198
* [Baker, Samuel Henry, 1824-1909]. An album of greetings cards, postcards, letters, and original artwork, relating to the Birmingham artist Samuel Baker, 1887-89, 32 leaves, most with printed and manuscript matter in the form of greetings cards and letters, mounted or tipped-in to rectos and versos, including cards from Walter Langley, George Albert Reynolds, Harry Foster Newey, Westley Horton, William Jabez Muckley, William John Wainwright, Edward Richard Taylor, and other Birmingham School artists, some inscribed by the artist, others identified in pencil to album leaf, but also including several watercolours and drawings: 2 sepia watercolour Christmas cards, one initialled E.C.B. and dated 1888, the other initialled MB; a watercolour of a small colourful bird in flight by Joseph Powell Williams MP; 2 grisaille miniature landscapes by W. Johnson; a watercolour Christmas card monogrammed AJS; and 2 unidentified pen & ink Christmas cards, a few leaves blank, some toning and foxing, occasional items missing and tears to album leaves, upper hinge splitting, original half black morocco, marked and some wear to edges, oblong 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:Landscape artist Samuel Henry Baker was a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) and the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (RE). He was born in Birmingham and apprenticed to James Chaplin, a magic lantern slide painter, and trained at Birmingham School of Design as well as under the landscape painter Joseph Paul Pettitt who had been a pupil of Joseph Vincent Barber. He exhibited over 500 paintings at the RBSA from 1848 to 1909 and was elected a member in 1868.
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