Pair of bodycolour on vellum paintings of birds, including a peacock, roosters and other fowl, ducks, a hoopoe and other birds, within a landscape setting

by Marmaduke Cradock, after

$15,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A lovely pair of vellum paintings. Cradock was born at Somerton, near Ilchester, in Somerset in about 1660. He was apprenticed to a house painter in London, but at the end of the apprenticeship turned to painting animals, birds and still life. He generally preferred working for a daily rate or for dealers, as opposed to wealthy patrons. His works are known to have been primarily used for interior decoration. Walpole praised some of his work, and examples are included in Lord

• Binding: Leather

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