Walker, FREDERICK

Walker, FREDERICK, artist, was born in Marylebone, 26th May 1840, studied at the British Museum, the Royal Academy, and elsewhere, and became a wood-engraver. He made drawings for the Cornhill, Good Words, Once a Week, and other periodicals, and contributed to the exhibitions of the Society of Painters in Water-colours. An A.R.A. since 1871, he died at St Fillans, Perthshire, 4th June 1875. Amongst his best-known pictures are the water-colours 'The Wayfarers,' 'The Rainbow,' and 'The Fishmonger's Shop,' and the oil-paintings 'The Bathers,' 'The Vagrants,' 'The Old Gate,' 'The Plough,' and 'The Harbour of Refuge.' See Claude Phillips in a special number of the Portfolio for 1894, and the Life by J. G. Marks (1896).