Marianne Croker (1791–1854) was an English watercolour painter and author of the 19th century.
Marianne Croker | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1791 |
| Died | 1854 (aged 62–63) |
| Other names | Marianne Nicholson |
| Occupation | Watercolour painter |
| Father | Francis Nicholson |
Early life
editCroker was born as Marianne Nicholson. Croker's father was Francis Nicholson, a leading watercolourist. Croker had a brother, Alfred.[1]
Career
editSome time after 1818, Croker and her brother Alfred made the acquaintance of Thomas Crofton Croker, then a civil servant with antiquarian interests. The three made a number of trips to the south of Ireland to gather material for a proposed publication – Researches in the South of Ireland (1824) – to which Marianne contributed illustrations.[2][3]
In Marianne, Thomas Croker found a partner who shared his interests and talents, and the two made numerous visits to Ireland in support of Thomas's later publications dealing with Celtic folklore.[2] Marianne's extensive contributions to Thomas's work are largely unacknowledged.[1][4]
Croker was the author of two books, Barney Mahoney and My Village Versus Our Village – both published at her request under her husband's name.[2] She also exhibited a number of landscape paintings.[1]
Personal life
editIn 1830, Croker married Thomas Crofton Croker, a civil servant with interests in antiquity. They had one child, Thomas Francis Dillon Croker, an amateur antiquary and poet.[1]
On 6 October 1854, Croker died in England, two months after the death of her husband.[1] She was buried at Brompton Cemetery in London (in the same grave as her husband) on 10 October.[5][6]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e McCormack 2004.
- ^ a b c Croker 1862.
- ^ Golightly 2007.
- ^ Haase 2008.
- ^ "Brompton Cemetery burial search". royalparks.org.UK. Retrieved 5 September 2019.(Marianne Croker, burial register 9591, Year of death: 1854, Date of burial: 10 October 1854)
- ^ Stephenson, R. (2002). "Brompton Cemetery: List of notable occupants". Archived from the original on 23 August 2006. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
Works cited
- McCormack, W. J. (2004). "Croker, Thomas Crofton (1798–1854)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6739. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Haase, Donald (2008). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales. Greenwood Press. p. 241. ISBN 9780313334412.
- Croker, T. Crofton (1862). Fairy legends and traditions of the south of Ireland. London: William Tegg. pp. iv–xix.
- Golightly, Karen B. (December 2007). Who Put the Folk in Folklore?: Nineteenth-century Collecting of Irish Folklore from T. Crofton Croker to Lady Augusta Gregory (D.Phil). Southern Illinois University Carbondale.