Sarah Lindley Crease

She emigrated to Vancouver Island in 1859, where her husband was a barrister. He later would become a prominent Supreme Court Judge. Besides her seven children, Crease taught Sunday school in the Anglican church and was a volunteer and fundraiser for many local cultural institutions. She was a talented amateur as a painter and is noted for her many watercolours of the Hudson's Bay Company fort, the city of Victoria, British Columbia, and other British Columbia locales. In her later life glaucoma limited her ability to paint. In addition to her painting Sarah kept detailed diaries which depicted the complexities of daily life in British Columbia. Her cumulative body of work comprises a "detailed pictorial record of colonial British Columbia". Her fonds is in BC Archives, Royal BC Museum, part of Series MS-2879 - the Crease family collection. In 1896 she became Lady Crease after the knighting of her husband. Lady Crease remained active in her community until she broke her hip in 1919.

• Name — Sarah Lindley Crease • Birth Name — Sarah Lindley • Birthplace — Acton Green, Middlesex, near London, England • Died — 1922 • Spouse — Henry Pering Pellew Crease (m. 1853) • Illustration — Bridge Leading To Red Government Buildings From The Top Of Which This View Is Taken - No. 8 (1860), watercolor, Royal British Columbia Museum Sarah Lindley Crease (1826–1922) was a Canadian artist.