Thomas Creswick
Thomas Creswick (5 February 181128 December 1869) was a British landscapist and illustrator, and one of the best-known members of the Birmingham School of landscapists.
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Thomas Creswick
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- Born
- 5 February 1811
- Birthplace
- Sheffield
- Died
- 28 December 1869
- Movement
- Birmingham School
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- painter · illustrator · draftsperson · graphic artist
- Fields
- landscape
- Teachers
- Joseph Vincent Barber
- Languages
- English
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Biography
Biography
Training under Joseph Vincent Barber is recorded. The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Work by Thomas Creswick is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Auckland Art Gallery, Tate, National Gallery of Canada and Yale Center for British Art.
Key facts
Key facts
• Born — 5 February 1811 • Birthplace — Sheffield • Died — 28 December 1869 • Movement — Birmingham School • Style — landscape painting
Biography
Biography
Creswick was born in Sheffield (at the time it was within Derbyshire). He was the son of Thomas Creswick and Mary Epworth and educated at Hazelwood, near Birmingham. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1911):
Works
Works
Creswick has paintings in numerous British collections and in the Yale Centre for British Art.
Gallery
Gallery
• Illustration — A View Of Windsor Castle • Illustration — View of Putney Bridge, 1831 • Illustration — Scene on the Tummel, Perthshire, 1844 • Illustration — Worcester engraving by William Miller after Creswick
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- 1.Grant, Maurice Harold. A chronological history of the old English landscape painters, in oil, from the 16th century to the 19th century. F. Lewis. 2. 167. 1958. 499875203.
- 2.Creswick, Thomas. 414.
- 3.Thomas Creswick.
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