Elizabeth Creed
Elizabeth Creed (née Pickering; 1642–1728) was a daughter of Sir Gilbert Pickering, Bart., cousin to the poet John Dryden, and a second cousin to Samuel Pepys.[1] She married a gentleman named Creed, of Oundle in Northamptonshire, and, on his death occupied herself in painting as an amateur, and gratuitously instructing young girls in fine needlework and other feminine arts.[2] Many churches in the neighbourhood of Oundle were decorated with altarpieces and various artistic adornments from her industrious and pious hands.[2] At Drayton, in the collection of the Earls of Peterborough, was a portrait of the first Earl of Sandwich; and Mrs. Creed's descendants possessed many portraits and some pictures by her.[2] She died May, 1728.[2]
References
- ^ http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/familytree/
- ^ a b c d Clayton, Ellen Creathorne. English female artists, volume 2 (London, Tinsley brothers, 1876) p. 39 ff.
- 2 Artworks by or after Elizabeth Creed at the Art UK site
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "CREED, Elizabeth". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.[[Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, volume 1|]]
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