Sarah Lindley Crease
Born
Sarah Lindley

1826 (1826)
Acton Green, Middlesex, near London, England
Died1922 (aged 95–96)
NationalityCanadian
SpouseHenry Pering Pellew Crease (m. 1853)
Bridge Leading To Red Government Buildings From The Top Of Which This View Is Taken - No. 8 (1860), watercolor, Royal British Columbia Museum

Sarah Lindley Crease (1826–1922) was a Canadian artist.

Born in England, as the daughter of botanist John Lindley, Crease studied art with Charles Fox and Sarah Ann Drake. Her early works were botanical illustrations for her father's publications, such as The Gardener's Chronicle. She emigrated to Vancouver Island in 1859, where her husband, Henry Pering Pellew Crease, became a prominent Supreme Court Judge.[1] Besides her seven children, Crease taught Sunday school in the Anglican church and was a volunteer and fundraiser for many local cultural institutions. She was a talented amateur as a painter[2] and is noted for her many watercolours of the Hudson's Bay Company fort, the city of Victoria, British Columbia, and other British Columbia locales. In her later life glaucoma limited her ability to paint.[3] Her body of work comprises a "detailed pictorial record of colonial British Columbia".[4] Her fonds is in BC Archives, Royal BC Museum, part of Series MS-2879 - the Crease family collection.

References

  1. ↑ Bridge 1996, p. 12.
  2. ↑ Bridge 1996, p. 16.
  3. ↑ Bridge, K (2005). "Lindley, Sarah (Crease)". Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
  4. ↑ "Crease, Sarah Lindley". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Concordia. 2007.

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