Cresswell, Richard Henry, Mrs
Gender:
Female
Date and place of birth:
1790 - Barming, Kent.
Date and place of death:
dec. 07.11.1881, Grove Lodge, Winchmore Hill, Middlesex
Worked:
(fl) 1819
Known places of work:
London
Known techniques:
Painted on paper
Known materials:
paper and ink
Frames:
N/A
Signature:
Unrecorded
Introduction:
Mrs. Richard Henry Cresswell never worked commercially as a profilist and is known solely for making a copy of a silhouette which is illustrated in McKechnie and housed in the National Portrait Gallery collection.
The bust-size work painted on paper is inscribed in ink "Sir William Wynne Knt. LLD. Dean of the Arches and the Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. There is no portrait taken of him, he always resisted all applications to sit for an artist. Mr.Brockton the Proctor took this resemblance of him as he sat giving judgment. It was faithfully copied by Mrs.Cresswell, widow of Richard Henry Cresswell LLD and Advocate".
HENRIETTA NOBLE (1790-1881) married R.H. Cresswell (1782-1818) in East Barming, Kent in March 1815. She gave birth to 2 sons: Richard Henry Jnr (1815-1882) and John (1818-1892). They became a clergyman and surgeon respectively. St. Benet, Pauls Wharf's baptismal register records their father's occupation as an Advocate in Doctors' Commons, London.
Henrietta's marriage was brief. Aged 36, her husband was buried at St. Benet's on the 12th of September 1818. Henrietta remained a widow and died, aged 91, at Grove Lodge, Winchmore Hill, Middlesex, the home of her surgeon son John, on the 7th of November 1881.
Revised 18 November 2022 (Brian Wellings)
Additional research about Mrs Richard Henry Cresswell:
Source: McKechnie (Author of, British Silhouette Artists and their Work 1760-1860)
Cresswell, Richard Henry, Mrs (McKechnie Section 2)