:AW174: Thomas Creswick English Landscape with Distant Ruins Oil on Canvas Painting

Thomas Creswick (English, 1811-1869) Landscape with Distant Ruins Oil on Canvas Painting. Relined and restored. Appears to be unsigned, but may be signed on the verso beneath the relining canvas. Presented in a  later gilt wood frame with later identification 

Provenance: From the collection of Dr. Henry T. Perkins, Jr., Raleigh, North Carolina

Dimensions: Sight 17 1/2" x 23 1/4" Frame 21 3/4" x 27 5/8"

Comments: Thomas Creswick (5 February 1811 – 28 December 1869) was an English Royal Academy landscape painter and illustrator, and one of the best-known members of the Birmingham School of landscape painters. Born in Sheffield to parents Thomas Creswick and Mary Epworth. He was educated at Hazelwood, near Birmingham where 
he first began to paint. His earliest appearance as an exhibitor was in 1827, at the Society of British Artists in London; in the ensuing year he sent to the Royal Academy the two pictures named Llyn Gwynant, Morning, and Carnarvon Castle. About the same time he settled in London; and in 1836 he took a house in Bayswater. He soon attracted some attention as a landscape painter, and had a career of uniform and encouraging, though not signal success. In 1842 he was elected an associate, and in 1850 a full member of the Royal Academy, which, for several years before his death, numbered hardly any other full members representing this branch of art. Creswick was industrious and extremely prolific; he produced, besides a steady outpouring of paintings, numerous illustrations for books. Among his principal works are: England (1847); Home by the Sands, and a Squally Day (1848); Passing Showers (1849); The Wind on Shore, a First Glimpse of the Sea, and Old Trees (1850); A Mountain Lake, Moonrise (1852); Changeable Weather (1865); also theLondon Road, a Hundred Years ago; The Weald of Kent; the Valley Mill (a Cornish subject); a Shady Glen; the Windings of a River; the Shade of the Beech Trees; the Course of the Greta; the Wharfe; Glendalough. Creswick has paintings in several British Collections including Sheffield, Canterbury, Derby Art Gallery and the Nothampton Gallery.