WALKER, FREDERICK English subject painter, the son of a designer of jewellery, was born in Maryle bone, London, on May 24, 1840. His earliest book illustrations appeared in 186o in Once a Week. In the Cornhill Magazine, his illustrations to Thackeray's Adventures of Philip and Denis Duval, are spirited works. He was elected an associate of the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1864 and a full member in 1866; and in 1871 he became an associate of the Royal Acad emy and an honorary member of the Belgian Society of Painters in Water Colours. His first oil picture, "The Lost Path," was
exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1863. In 1871 he exhibited his tragic life-sized figure of "A Female Prisoner at the Bar," a subject which now exists only in a finished oil study, for the painter afterwards effaced the head and was prevented by death from again completing the picture. On June 5, 1875 he died of consumption at St. Fillan's, Perthshire.
See G. Marks Life and Letters of Frederick Walker, A.R.A., (1896) Frederick Walker and his Works, by Claude Phillips (1897).