Biography

Cradock was an English painter of birds, dead game, and other animals, in which he particularly excelled. He was born in Somerton

Somerton

Somerton is a small town and civil parish in the South Somerset district of the English county of Somerset. It gave its name to the county of Somerset, was briefly, around the start of the 14th century, the county town, and around 900 AD was possibly the capital of Wessex...

 and served an apprenticeship to a house-painter in London

London

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. Without the help of an instructor, he became a faithful delineator of birds and animals, which he painted with a freedom and a fire that entitled him to more distinction and a more liberal remuneration than he received during his life. After his death in London his works were sold at three or four times the price he received for them when living.

According to the RKD he was a still life and bird painter who was influenced by Melchior d'Hondecoeter

Melchior d'Hondecoeter

Melchior d'Hondecoeter , Dutch animalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam. After the start of his career, he painted virtually exclusively bird subjects, usually exotic or game, in park-like landscapes...

, Peter Frans Casteels, and Jakob Bogdani

Jakob Bogdani

Jakob Bogdani , whose names are sometimes spelt Jacob and Bogdany, was a Hungarian and British artist well known for his still life and exotic bird paintings.-Biography:...

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External links

• A Peacock and Other Birds in a Landscape circa 1700 at the Tate
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• Marmaduke Cradock on Artnet
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