The Biographical Dictionary of America/Baker, William Bliss

BAKER, William Bliss, artist, was born in New York, N.Y., in 1859. He displayed artistic talent in his early boyhood, and at the age of seventeen became a student at the National academy of design, where he continued for four years, taking a first prize in the antique school the year before leaving, and a third prize in 1884 of one hundred dollars for his painting, "Woodland Brook." Among his other works are: "Pleasant Day at Lake George" (1883); "October Morning" (1884); "Solitude" (1885); and "Under the Apple Trees" (1886).