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Eve Baker (fl. 1890 - 1915) was a Scottish painter.

Life
Poss born 1855 Fulham, Prefect teacher in 1871 census.

She was based in Coldringham, Berwickshire in 1891-3. as (T.) Evangeline Baker.

She was based in Angle Park, Kirriemuir (1896). Drawing classes there.

1909

1910

Art
School industrial display prizewinners (for a map) - 1870 West London Observer - Saturday 07 May 1870

Norwood News - Saturday 21 May 1887 exhibiting at London Art Students exhibition.

5 June 1891 From Berwickshire Advertiser, Miss Baker intends on forming classes for Sketching in Nature in Berwick and Duns. Apply Miss Baker, Coldingham.

Berwickshire News and General Advertiser - Tuesday 12 July 1892, Miss Baker asked Charles Barrington Balfour, prospective Conservative MP for Berwickshire, on woman's suffrage. Balfour said he was in favour of woman getting the vote. [He was the first cousin of Arthur Balfour, later Conservative PM. Charles did not win and went to London where he was elected.] In 1909, Eve Baker was elected the Honorary Secretary of the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association in Glasgow. Their first meeting was successful and Baker received many new members.

1893

1894

1895

Miss Eve Baker - from London and Paris - will give nature sketching lessons, St. Andrews 13 June 1896, 41 North Castle Street. Marked as a visitor.

1897 After studying in Paris.

In 1898 she opened an atelier at Albany Chambers in Charing Cross in Glasgow. Her house was at 5 Blythswood Square, Glasgow.

1899

1900

Portrait of Mrs Morley Hoare, GSLA exhibition, 1902

Interesting pictures, at exhibition at 32 Buchanan Street, Glasgow.

1907, in the course of a two year stay in Netherlands.

1909

Baker was a militant suffragette associated with the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists.

1912

1913

1914

1915

Probable return to London c. 1915.

Death
poss. death of a grocer in Lincolnshire 1928, aged 67.