Percy Bryant Baker
Born 1881
Died 1971
Active: 1910
Country of birth and death: Great Britain
Sculptor
Institutional and Business Connections
Honorary member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1964 (Presumed)
May have become honorary fellow in 1964[List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors].
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1913 - 1923 (Presumed)
Requested to pay arrears in 1923 [List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors].
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1908 (Presumed) - 1910 (Presumed)
Awarded a second prize of £15 for a set of four models of a figure from the life, in 1908. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1908', (1909), p. 32. In 1910, Baker won a first prize of £30 for a model of a design, and a first prize silver medal of a model of a bust from the life. See 'Annual Report, 1909', (1910), p. 35.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by William Silver Frith
20 January 1913
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [20 January 1913, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Seconded by Thomas Brock
20 January 1913
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [20 January 1913, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Sources
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
20 January 1913.
Citing this record
'Percy Bryant Baker', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1220268728, accessed 19 May 2013]







