Marmaduke Cradock (English, 1660-1716), Birds In Landscape, Oil On Board, depicting various bird species including a peacock, chickens, etc., with landscape in the distance, framed, wear consistent with age, frame size: 13" h x 16" w., ss: 10" h. x 13" w.
Cradock was an English painter, noted for his depictions of birds, dead game, and other animals. He was born in Somerton, Somerset and moved to London, where he served an apprenticeship to a house-painter. He was, however, self-taught as an artist becoming skilled in the depiction of birds and animals.
Sketches in the collection of the British Museum indicate that he based at least some of the birds in his paintings on drawings from life. He tended to paint domestic birds and common wild species, rather than the exotic varieties favoured by some other artists. He sometimes introduced elements of drama such as attacks by predatory animals into his bird paintings, a feature shared with the works of Francis Barlow. Buyers of his paintings often incorporated them into schemes of interior decoration, setting them into panelling above doors or fireplaces
[PROVENANCE: From the estate of Ruth Graham, previously sold by Bonhams London and listed as by Marmaduke Cradock in 2005 to Ruth Graham.]
Marmaduke Cradock (English, 1660-1716), Birds In Landscape, Oil On Board, depicting various bird species including a peacock, chickens, etc., with landscape in the distance, framed, wear consistent with age, frame size: 13" h x 16" w., ss: 10" h. x 13" w.
Cradock was an English painter, noted for his depictions of birds, dead game, and other animals. He was born in Somerton, Somerset and moved to London, where he served an apprenticeship to a house-painter. He was, however, self-taught as an artist becoming skilled in the depiction of birds and animals.
Sketches in the collection of the British Museum indicate that he based at least some of the birds in his paintings on drawings from life. He tended to paint domestic birds and common wild species, rather than the exotic varieties favoured by some other artists. He sometimes introduced elements of drama such as attacks by predatory animals into his bird paintings, a feature shared with the works of Francis Barlow. Buyers of his paintings often incorporated them into schemes of interior decoration, setting them into panelling above doors or fireplaces
[PROVENANCE: From the estate of Ruth Graham, previously sold by Bonhams London and listed as by Marmaduke Cradock in 2005 to Ruth Graham.]
