Elisha Taylor Baker
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February 17, 1827
Elisha Taylor Baker | |
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 Elisha Taylor Baker Self Portrait, 1889. | |
| Born | Elisha Taylor Baker February 17, 1827 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | August 21, 1890 (aged 63) Orange, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Resting place | Colchester, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Known for | marine art |
| Style | portraitist, luminist |
| Spouse | Adelaide Brigg |
Elisha Taylor Baker (February 17, 1827 – August 21, 1890)[citation needed] was an American marine artist from New York City. He was a ship portraitist, luminist and landscape painter.
Baker painted full-rigged ships, yachts, steamboats and schooners. His works are in the art collections of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, the Mariners' Museum and Park, and the Mystic Seaport Museum.[1][better source needed]
On March 10, 1851, he married Adelaide Brigg in Hebron, Connecticut. They had no children.[1][better source needed]
Early career
Baker spent some time at sea in 1851. He worked in New York City as a marine painter from 1868 to 1880. He traveled around New England painting full-rigged ships, yachts, steamboats and coasting schooners. He painted some landscapes and marine artwork. One of his paintings is a John Jacob Astor IV steam yacht Nourmahal (ca. 1884) off Cowes. A business card listed him as: "Elisha T. Baker, Marine Painter, 315 Pearl & 104 South Sts., N.Y."[1][better source needed]
He signed his paintings in various ways: "E. T. Baker", "E. Taylor Baker" "E. T. B." or "Baker". To date, a total of twenty-four of his paintings exist. Eleven additional paintings have characteristics of his work but are unsigned.[1][better source needed] A surviving circa-1875 cloth-bound sketchbook exists with thirty-four pages with C. & R. Poillon's shipyard, Coney Island, landscapes, battlement towers, sloop at Sheepshead Bay, ice barge, Navesink Highlands, Plumb Island, Saybrook, fishing nets drying, harbors, Brooklyn Bridge tower unfinished, cityscapes with color notations, etc.[2]
