• Was an English painter of birds and animals.
• Some older sources give his first name as Luke.
• Cradock was born in Somerton, Somerset and moved to London.
• In London he served an apprenticeship to a house-painter.
• He was, however, self-taught as an artist.
• He worked in general by the day, and 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.
• According to the
RKD his work as a still life and bird painter was influenced by
Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Peter Frans Casteels, and Jakob Bogdani.
• There are only three known signed works by him.
• He died in London in 1716.
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