John Crealock - Thames Embankment
John Crealock - Thames Embankment
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JOHN CREALOCK, RHA
(1871-1959)
Thames Embankment
Signed l.l.: J Crealock; signed and inscribed with title on the reverse
Oil on canvas
Framed
33.5 by 46 cm., 13 ¼ by 18 in.
(frame size 47.5 by 60 cm., 18 ¾ by 23 ½ in.)
John Mansfield Stradling Crealock was born in Dublin, the son of Major General John North Crealock. Both his father and uncle, Lt-Gen Henry Hope Crealock, were competent amateur artists, known for their sketches of many of the military actions they witnessed. John Crealock was educated at a boarding school in Brighton before entering the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He saw action in the Boer War before leaving the army to study art at the Academie Julian, Paris and setting up a studio in London, working as a successful portrait and landscape painter. He enlisted again, serving with the Manchester Regiment, Royal Engineers and later as a Staff Captain at the War Office during World War I. Following the war he returned to his London studio and resumed his successful artistic career. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, New English Art Club and elsewhere. Crealock is represented in several public collections in the UK and France.
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Thames EmbankmentSigned l.l.: J Crealock; signed and inscribed with title on the reverseOil on canvasFramed33.5 by 46 cm., 13 ¼ by 18 in.(frame size 47.5 by 60 cm., 18 ¾ by 23 ½ in.)John Mansfield Stradling Crealock was born in Dublin, the son of Major General John North Crealock. Both his father and uncle, Lt-Gen Henry Hope Crealock, were competent amateur artists, known for their sketches of many of the military actions they witnessed. John Crealock was educated at a boarding school in Brighton before entering the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He saw action in the Boer War before leaving the army to study art at the Academie Julian, Paris and setting up a studio in London, working as a successful portrait and landscape painter. He enlisted again, serving with the Manchester Regiment, Royal Engineers and later as a Staff Captain at the War Office during World War I. Following the war he returned to his London studio and resumed his successful artistic career. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, New English Art Club and elsewhere. Crealock is represented in several public collections in the UK and France.){kind=link}