Background
Her early works were botanical illustrations for her father"s publications, such as The Gardener"s Chronicle.
Her early works were botanical illustrations for her father"s publications, such as The Gardener"s Chronicle.
Born in England, Crease studied art with Charles Fox and Sarah Ann Drake.
She is noted for her watercolours of the Hudson"s Bay Company fort, the city of Victoria, British Columbia, and other British Columbia locales. In her later life glaucoma limited her ability to paint. Her body of work comprises a "detailed pictorial record of colonial British Columbia".