Sara Lindley Crease Bridge Leading To Red Government Buildings From The Top Of Which This View Is Taken - No

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, Crease studied art with Charles Fox and Sarah Ann Drake. Her early works were botanical illustrations for her father's publications, such as ''The Gardener's Chronicle''. She emigrated to

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in 1859, where her husband,

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, became a prominent Supreme Court Judge. Besides her seven children, Crease taught

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in the

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church and was a volunteer and fundraiser for many local cultural institutions. She was a talented amateur as a painter and is noted for her many

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of the

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fort, the city of

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, and other

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locales. In her later life

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limited her ability to paint. Her body of work comprises a "detailed pictorial record of colonial British Columbia". Her fonds is in BC Archives, Royal BC Museum, part of Series MS-2879 - the Crease family collection.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Crease, Sarah 1826 births 1922 deaths Canadian women painters 19th-century Canadian painters 20th-century Canadian painters 20th-century Canadian women artists 19th-century Canadian women artists English emigrants to pre-Confederation British Columbia