Thomas Creswick (5 February 181128 December 1869) was a British

landscapist Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a cohe ...

and illustrator, and one of the best-known members of the Birmingham School of landscapists.

Biography

Creswick was born in

Sheffield Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, situated south of Leeds and east of Manchester. The city is the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and some of its so ...

(at the time it was within Derbyshire). He was the son of Thomas Creswick and Mary Epworth and educated at Hazelwood, near

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis ...

. According to the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition (1911): Creswick Thomas A View Of Windsor Castle

Worcester engraving by William Miller after T Creswick

Creswick has paintings in numerous British collections and in the

Yale Center for British Art The Yale Center for British Art at Yale University in central New Haven, Connecticut, houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. The collection of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, rare ...

References

External links

Creswick online
(ArtCyclopedia)
A drover and his herd crossing a ford
(Christie's)
An English Merrymaking a Hundred Years Ago
(1847 collaboration with

W P Frith William Powell Frith (9 January 1819 – 2 November 1909) was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1853, presenting ''The Slee ...

- Christie's)
Artwork by Thomas Creswick
{{DEFAULTSORT:Creswick, Thomas 1811 births 1869 deaths Artists from Sheffield 19th-century English painters English male painters English illustrators English landscape artists Royal Academicians 19th-century English male artists