CRESWICK, THOMAS

CRESWICK, THOMAS
   an English landscape painter, born in Sheffield; simple, pleasantly-suggestive, and faithfully-painted scenes from nature were the subjects of his art; was employed a good deal in book illustrations (1811-1869).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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