Baker, Edmund Smith
BORN: 1843, Cubbington, Warwickshire, England
DIED: 3 February 1928, Warwickshire, England
ACTIVE:
Netterville Briggs & H. P. Robinson, Leamington, Warwickshire, England, 1863–1875
Cherry Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, 1875
207 Bristol Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, 1876–1882
82 Bristol Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, 1883–1895
E. S. Baker & Son, 82 Bristol Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, 1896
E. S. Baker & Son, 154 Bristol Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, c1897–1912
E. S. Baker & Son, 125 Bristol Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, 1913–bef 1921
Birmingham Daily Post, Thursday, May 13, 1875, p. 4
The Birmingham-based photographer and landscape painter Edmund Smith-Baker (usually given as E. S. Baker) was the eldest of Midlands landscape painter and watercolourist Thomas Baker's five illegitimate children by Elizabeth Alice Smith, a lodging housekeeper from Cubbington. Edmund Smith-Baker ran a studio on Bristol Street in Birmingham together with his younger brother Thomas William, where – alongside the production of carte de visite photographs – he is believed to have completed new and previously unfinished Baker landscapes. Some of these works are signed "E.S. Baker" while others display a rather more decorative signature of "E.S.B" in which the "S" is combined with an enlarged "B".
WR0001A – Unknown Man, CDV, Edmund Smith Baker, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, c1882–1889
WR0001B –Photographer Back Stamp, E. S. Baker, 82 Bristol St., Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, c1882–1889
WR0002 – Unknown Woman, CDV, Edmund Smith Baker,
82 Bristol St., Birmingham, Warwickshire, c1882–1889
WR0003 – Unknown Woman, CDV, Edmund Smith Baker,
82 Bristol St., Birmingham, Warwickshire, c1882–1889
WR0008 – Unknown Man, CDV, Edmund Smith Baker, 82 Bristol St., Birmingham, Warwickshire, c1882–1889