Creswick, THOMAS, R.A.

Creswick, THOMAS, R.A., a popular landscape-painter, was born at Sheffield, 5th February 1811. He early exhibited a taste for drawing, and removed to London in 1828, where two of his pictures during that year found a place in the Royal Academy's exhibition. Creswick loved to paint the beautiful streams, and glens, and wooded dells of his native land; and these, which, along with some coast scenes, form the subject of his best paintings, are represented on his canvas with great delicacy of finished detail and truth of aerial perspective, the figures introduced being frequently from the brush of Ansdell, Cooper, Frith, and other artists. He was well known as a book-illustrator by his drawings for the wood-engravers, and he contributed to the publications of the English Etching Club. He was elected an A.R.A. in 1842, an R.A. in 1851. He died 28th December 1869. More than a hundred of his works were collected in the London International Exhibition of 1873.