Painter and teacher, born in Bowness-on-Windermere, Westmorland. He worked with his father as a boatbuilder, then during the 1930s travelled widely in Europe with his lifelong friend, the painter and illustrator Eric Hiller, who was to show extensively at Goupil Gallery. When World War II broke out Breaker returned to England and worked for Vickers Armstrong in the drawing office. In 1947 he and Hiller moved to Cornwall, settling in Newlyn where they founded the Newlyn Holiday Sketching Club, This they ran for 15 years, and when Hiller died Breaker moved to Penzance. Showed widely in Britain and on the continent, in later years his work being exhibited by Nina Zborowska Fine Paintings, Painswick.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)