Background
His father placed him at the Trustees" Academy, under Sir William Allan, where he gained a travelling bursary, which enabled him to study in Rome for about two years.
His father placed him at the Trustees" Academy, under Sir William Allan, where he gained a travelling bursary, which enabled him to study in Rome for about two years.
Edinburgh College of Artist
Crawford was a native of Ayr. On his return he conducted the drawing classes of the Trustees" Academy for several years, and also occasionally contributed art criticisms to Edinburgh newspapers. His crayon portraits, of which a good many were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, were much sought after.
Among his genre paintings we may mention his "Highland Keeper"s Daughter" (1866), "Waiting for the Ferry," "Return from Maying," and "Too Late," a striking picture exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1869, in which year he died.