Marmaduke Cradock (1660 - 1716)

Marmaduke Cradock

Marmaduke Cradock was an English painter 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.

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