Bibliography: Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, Chicago, IL:American Publishers' Association, 1902. page 70 BAKER, WILLIAM H., artist, was born in 1825, in Lenox, N. Y. One of his best portraits is that of Bishop Quintard of Tennessee, painted for the episcopal general convention. He died May 29, 1875, in Brooklyn, N. Y.