Frederick Walker (painter)

In 1855–1857, he worked in an architect's office in Gower Street, but he gave this up to become a student at the British Museum and at James Mathews Leigh's art school.

[2] During the two years of his apprenticeship he met fellow artists J. W. North and George Pinwell, and he continued to paint in his spare time, in oils and watercolours.

He was introduced to the satirist and author William Thackeray, the Cornhill's editor, for whom he provided drawings, such as "Comfort in grief", for "The Adventures of Philip", initially published as a serial, then as a book in 1862.

[5] Walker produced his first important watercolour, "Strange faces" in 1862 at Yale Center for British Art, New Haven,[6] and in the following year "Philip in Church",[7] which won a medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1867.

In 1873 he travelled to Algiers in a failed attempt to recuperate from a bout of tuberculosis that worsened until his death in June 1875 at St Fillans in Perthshire, Scotland.