Early Life, Family and Artistic Training Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, provides the setting for the birth of Walter Dexter on 12 June 1876. He enters a family defined by visual craft; his father, Walter Sothern Dexter, works as a photographic artist. This early exposure to the mechanics of image-making precedes his formal education in the town of King's Lynn. Here, the boy encounters Henry Baines. Baines, a painter of West Norfolk…