Walker, FREDERICK (1840-1875), an English painter, born at London. At an early age he began drawing, and after spending about eighteen months in an architect's office he became a student at the Royal Academy and commenced designing for wood engravers. The illustrations he supplied between 1860 and 1864 to the Cornhill Magazine and Once a Week are full of life and rank high as specimens of this kind of draughtsmanship. Some of these drawings he reproduced in water color, in which medium he produced a number of exquisite pictures. His best works in oil are The Bathers, By the Plow, Philip in Church, The Wayfarers and Vagrants. Originality, poetic feeling, graceful drawing and remarkable purity and range of color characterize his paintings.