He was the son of Montagu Bernard Baker, who worked for the British East India Company, and his wife Harriet Fanny Bangh.
[2] Baker is known for his illustrations and watercolour paintings of military subjects, such as "Sir John Moore at Corunna, January 16th 1809" in the 1920s.
[1] He exhibited his paintings at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery and the London Salon between 1914 and 1930, as well as in his home town of Beccles in Suffolk.
The Danube with Pen and Pencil (1911) has a dedication to "My Right Good Friend and Genial Host Guido Elbogen of Schloss Thalheim, Lower Austria".
Jenny, her husband Friedrich Weleminsky and son Anton Weleminsky fled the Nazis in 1939 and came to England under the guarantee[3] of "an English ex-army Colonel" in Beccles[4] who was Bernard Granville Baker.