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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
The Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  A marine painter, Elisha Baker grew up in Colchester, Connecticut and spent time at sea. From 1868 to 1880, he was a marine painter working in New York City. He also traveled around New England and became known for his depictions of ship portraits, yachts and steamboats. He also did a few landscapes.
Source:
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"
Reference:
Baker, William Avery, "Elisha Taylor Baker, Marine Painter: A Continuing Search." The Log of Mystic Seaport, v. 31, no. 1 (Spring 1979) 22-26.
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Biography from VALLEJO GALLERY, LLC, Marine Art Specialists:
| Elisha Baker was a marine painter with first-hand knowledge of his
subject. Born in New York City, he spent his formative years with
his extended family in the whaling ports of Connecticut. He
married a local woman in 1851, and likely joined in the lucrative whale
oil and baleen trades.
He first formally registered as an artist
back in New York City in 1868. This occupation change was likely
prompted by the heavy destruction inflicted upon the northern whaling
fleets during the American Civil War. The dozens of known works
by Baker indicate the shift was profitable and, artistically speaking,
highly merited. His early works are often attributed to him,
while he later signed ‘E. Taylor Baker’, ‘E.T. Baker’ and developed a
distinct intertwined initial monogram by the late 1880s.
He
painted in the draftsman style of his later contemporaries, proving to
be a prominent influence toward many of their professions. Still,
he enhanced his works with flashes of luminescence, which progressed
from the Hudson River School through the works of Fitz Hugh Lane and
William Bradford.
Not favoring any particular style of ship, he painted all types. His best known work is of the new London whaleship George, captained by his relative, William M. Baker.
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Biography from Roger King Fine Art, A - G:
| Elisha Taylor Baker was born in New York City and grew up in Colchester, Connecticut. He went to sea in 1851. He worked as a painter from 1868 to 1880; a surviving business card identifies him as a "Marine Painter" at 115 Pearl Street and 104 South Street in New York. Although he painted some landscapes, he is known primarily for his paintings of ships, yachts, and steamboats.
He traveled throughout New England and is thought to have traveled to the British Isles in the 1880s. Baker died in 1890 in Orange, Connecticut. His works are in the collections of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, the Mariners' Museum, and Mystic Seaport. As late as 1979 only twenty-four paintings by Baker had been recorded; eleven others were subsequently attributed to him.
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