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|  Born in Bangor, Maine, Joseph Baker settled in Boston where he apprenticed at J.H. Bufford lithography firm in 1857 with Winslow Homer. He then became Bufford's principal draftsman and illustrator of sheet music. His portrait of Abraham Lincoln was widely circulated and established his reputation for portraiture.
During the Civil War, he did many cartoons and lithographs of military scenes for Bufford. After Bufford's death, he worked for Armstrong and Company and remained active until 1888.
He exhibited with the Boston Art Club.
Baker's daughter, Edith Franklin Baker, married Joseph R. DeCamp, a prominent impressionist painter
Sources:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
Katharine Parsons (Edith Baker information)
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