Lot #39: Watercolour Painting by William Nicoll Cresswell (1818-1888), English-Canadian.

William Nicoll Cresswell RCA (1818 – 1888) was an English painter who emigrated to Canada in 1848. He is best known for his landscape and marine paintings done in watercolour or oil in Canada. He reputedly studied with Clarkson Stanfield, a prominent British artist, and with his family, emigrated to Tuckersmith Township in Huron County, Ontario in 1848. Cresswell chose to live in relative artistic isolation but traveled widely and influenced the early careers of both Robert Gagen and George Reid who lived nearby. As an artist, he was a member of the Society of Canadian Artists, the Ontario Society of Artists and a founding member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. His work, inspired by the British concepts of the beautiful and the sublime, was executed mainly in oil and watercolour using animal, landscape and marine subjects. Wooden frame with glass in very good condition. Frame: 45cm x 32cm. Painting: 30cm x 15.5cm. Pickup category timeslot {A}