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CREASE, Mary Maberly
- Born
- Antron, Cornwall, England, 1854
- Died
- Victoria, British Columbia, 1915
- Biography synopsis
- Eldest child of Sir Henry Pellew Crease and Lady Sarah Lindley Crease, Mary Maberly was an amateur artist who executed many watercolour views of Vancouver Island and the surrounding areas. She arrived in Victoria in 1860 and moved with her family to New Westminster in 1862 when her father became attorney-general of the colony. Six years later, they returned to Victoria and settled into their family home, Pentrelew.
- Media used
- Watercolour
- File & Archive locations
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- British Columbia Archives
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "Meet the Crease Family - Families in B.C. History" Http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/exhibits/timemach/galler01/frames/crease19.htm B.C. Archives, 9 April 2007
- Finlay, K.A. and Shea, T.. "A Woman's Place" Art and the Role of Women in the Cultural Formation of Victoria B.C. 1850s-1920s Victoria, B.C.: Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, University of Victoria, 2004
- Gilmore, Bernice C. Artists Overland: A Visual Record of British Columbia 1793-1886. Burnaby: Burnaby Art Gallery, 1980
- Harper, J. Russell. Early Painters and Engravers in Canada Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970
- Hume, Stephen Eaton. Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies and Fireweed: Frontier Women of BC. Madeira Park, British Columbia: Harbour Publishing, 2004
- Johnson-Dean, Christina B. The Crease Family and the Arts in Victoria, British Columbia. Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1983
- McKendry, Blake. Dictionary of Folk Artists in Canada: From the 17th Century to the Present. Elginburg: Blake McKendry, 1988
- Petteys, Chris, et al. Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985
