Charles Henry Collins Baker CVO (24 January 1880 – 3 July 1959) was an English art historian and painter.
[2] In 1911, he became the art critic for the Saturday Review, succeeding D. S. MacColl, and became an assistant and secretary to Sir Charles Holroyd, Director of the National Gallery.
[3] In 1912, Collins Baker wrote Lely and the Stuart Portrait Painters, considered to be his most important book; Ellis Waterhouse called it the "last great scholarly monument" of "the last great age of the self-taught scholar in England, before it was permissible to call oneself an art historian".
[2] From 1914 he held the post of Keeper of the National Gallery, and was retained when Charles Holmes succeeded Holroyd as Director in 1916.
[2] Oliver Millar, a later holder of the post, described him as "a nice and kind man, but untrained in scholarly method.