George Lewis Luker was born in Oxford in 1845.[1] He was trained as an architect but developed into a very talented watercolour landscape painter. During the 1880s he was based in London, then Milford, Surrey by 1887 before relocating to No.10 New Inn, Westminster, London before and at the time of his death on 3 February 1902.[2] He had at death low assets — publicly sworn (in probate) by his executrix, the wife of Thomas William Allen, at £46 13s. 6d.[3]