PROVENANCE
Collection of English physiologist and surgeon who pioneered research into bone, Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (1783 - 1862)

New Zealand family by descent since late 19th Century Cradock was an English painter, noted for his depictions of birds, dead game, and other animals. He was born Somerset and moved to London, where he served an apprenticeship to a house-painter. He was self-taught becoming skilled in the depiction of birds and animals. Horace Walpole wrote that I have seen some pieces by his hand which he painted with a freedom and a fire that entitled them to more distinction. According to Walpole, Cradock deliberately shunned aristocratic patronage.

He worked for dealers who retailed his works; possessing that conscious dignity of talent which made him hate to be employed by men whose birth and fortune confined his fancy, and restrained his freedom.