James Cranke
Painting, Visual Artist
1707 – 1780
Who was James Cranke?
James Cranke was born at Little Urswick, near Barrow, and lived there for most of his life. He was trained as a plasterer, but became a self-taught portrait painter and attempted to make his name in London c. 1737–52. He attended St. Martin's Lane Academy and in 1744 he married a well-known heiress and opened his own studio in Bloomsbury Square. Several art historians have recognised that he may have been more prolific had ill health not forced him to return home. His chosen medium was oil on canvas.
James Cranke taught the well-known artist George Romney how to paint when he was a small boy. Romney was born at Beckside, Dalton-in-Furness, which was close to the home of the Cranke Family. James Cranke taught one of his sons, James Cranke Jr, to follow him as a portrait painter.
The success of James Cranke and his son as portrait painters helped their family to become important local landowners. Steelworks In 1854 the Furness Railway persuaded their descendants to sell their rural estate at Hindpool, and this enabled the development of Barrow as a town to begin in earnest.
James Cranke is also notable as the father of the mathematician John Cranke.
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- Born
- Jun 23, 1707
Urswick - Also known as
- 詹姆斯·克兰克
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- St. Martin's Lane Academy
- Lived in
- Urswick
- Died
- Oct 28, 1780
Urswick
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on July 23, 2013
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