Gladys Baker

Gladys Marguerite Baker (14 October 1889 – 1974) was a British portrait painter.

Baker was born in the St Pancras district of London to Sarah Jane née Rudman and Joseph Baker, a warehouse worker and later a clothing manufacturer, who together had nine children.

[2] There Baker won a Graphic Prize and a silver medal for composition in colour.

[1] During her career Baker painted portraits in oils and watercolours and also created still lifes, landscapes and decorative pieces.

[3] Baker lived in London throughout her life, at Tavistock Square then Finchley and finally in Barnet.