Background
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.
Thomas Creswick
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.
At Birmingham Thomas Creswick first began to paint. His earliest appearance as an exhibitor was in 1827, at the Society of British Artists in London. In the ensuing year he sent to the Royal Academy the two pictures named Llyn Gwynant, Morning, and Carnarvon Castle.
About the same time he settled in London.
And in 1836 Thomas Creswick took a house in Bayswater. He soon attracted some attention as a landscape painter, and had a career of uniform and encouraging, though not signal success.
In his early practice he set an example, then too much needed, of diligent study of nature out of doors, painting on the spot all the substantial part of several of his pictures. English and Welsh streams may be said to have formed his favourite subjects, and generally British rural scenery, mostly under its cheerful, calm and pleasurable aspects, in open daylight. Thomas Creswick produced, besides a steady outpouring of paintings, numerous illustrations for books He was personally genial, a dark, bulky man, somewhat heavy and graceless in aspect in his later years.