Anthony Raine Barker (1880 - 1963)

Biography

Anthony Raine (A.R.) Barker (4 September 1880 – 9 August 1963) was a British artist. He was educated at Framlingham College, Suffolk, and trained initially as an architect at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). In 1909, he won the RIBA John Soane medallion for design, and in January of the following year, he was awarded a certificate of honourable mention in the William Tite prize. He later became a painter in the traditional school of English watercolour as well as an engraver, lithographer, and etcher.