Edmund Thornton Crawford

Biography:

Edmund Thornton Crawford RSA (1806–1885) was a Scottish landscape and marine painter. Crawford was born at Cowden, near Dalkeith, in 1806. He was the son of a land surveyor, and when a boy was apprenticed to a house-painter in Edinburgh, but having evinced a decided taste and ability for art, his engagement was cancelled, and he entered the Trustee...