Lot 12 Frances Baker

Frances Baker (1873-1944) PORTRAIT OF MRS. GEORGE RUSSELL (WIFE OF A.E.) Oil on canvas, 30'' x 24'' (76 x 61cm), signed and dated 1911 Frances Baker established in 1919 in Dublin a hand weaving industry, The Crock of Gold. During the 1930's, she taught arts and crafts. She was a close friend of Sarah Purser, the Yeats Family (WB's father taught her), and Evelyn Glasson. She exhibited with well known painters of the time; Constance Gore-Booth, WJ Leech, Dermod O'Brien and the Markiecz family. She had a close association with AE and exhibited at the Leinster Hall exhibition, Molesworth Street from 1906-1915.