Frances, the eldest child, studied at the Slade School of Art, taking a certificate in figure drawing in the 1894-95 session.
[8] He died suddenly in 1903,[9] and his widow and young family moved to Ballysadare, where Frances had a farm, worked as a photographer[10] and continued painting.
Working both in oil and watercolor, producing portraits and landscapes, Baker exhibited regularly with George William Russell (AE).
[11][12] In Dublin, Baker was acquainted with Irish activists and artists including Constance Gore-Booth and her second husband Casimir Dunin Markievicz.
[citation needed] She exhibited paintings in a joint show at the Leinster Lecture Hall in 1911 with Markievicz, Russell, and Paul and Grace Henry.