Cruikshank, Isaac Robert (McKechnie Section 2)

Recorded by Foskett as a miniaturist; known also from a silhouette of an equestrian subject sold by Sotheby and Company, London, on 11 February 1932 from the collection of R. W. Mudie. The subject was a Mameluke (a mounted Egyptian soldier) firing a pistol at full gallop, in an Egyptian landscape. The background was painted in wash, with pyramids shown in the distance. Since Mahomet Ali ended the power of the Mamelukes in 1811, this silhouette was presumably painted by this year.

Born on 27 September 1789 in Duke Street, Bloomsbury, London, Cruikshank first became a midshipman in the East India Company, and later devoted himself to painting miniatures, book illustrations and caricatures. He died on 13 March 1856. He was the brother of George Cruikshank.

The silhouette (signed 'I. C.' in Indian ink and 'I. Cruikshank' in pencil) is owned by R. B. and S. C. M. Allen.