Mary Baker
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Mary Baker (????-????) was a British painter.
She was born in London and produced works for the Society of Arts, as well as exhibiting miniatures and portraits at the Royal Academy over a fourteen year period (1842 - 1856). An example of her work, painted in oils, is preserved in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. She was the artist Henry Moore's mother.
[edit] Reference
Foskett, Daphne (1972) A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, Vol I, Faber and Faber, London (ISBN 0-571-08295-5)