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A Guinea Fowl and Cuban Red Macaw #2391071

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A Guinea Fowl and Cuban Red Macaw   #2391071
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A Guinea Fowl and Cuban Red Macaw in a Landscape Attributed to Marmaduke Craddock 1660-1717</em></td>
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Marmaduke Craddock was born at Somerton, near Ilchester, and until fairly recently had wrongly been called Luke Craddock. He started his career as an apprentice at the home of an artisan painter in London, but due to his great energy and driving ambition, soon
became an individual artist working in his own style.

He was a close follower of the important English bird and animal painter, Francis Barlow, but mainly in subject matter rather than style. The English school of animal painting really started with these two artists in the closing stages of the Seventeenth century. Craddock may be distinguished from Barlow by a bolder and more strongly coloured technique. The landscapes, in which he sets his lively fowl- often pursued by a hawk, are delicately painted and accurately depict the aspect of the fens and farmland of Carolean England. He died in London in 1717.

Examples of the artist's work can be found in the Painter's Hall, London and the British Museum.


The Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) is the best known of the guineafowl bird family, Numididae, and the only member of the genus Numida. It breeds in Africa, mainly south of the Sahara, and has been widely introduced into the West Indies and southern France.

It breeds in warm, fairly dry and open habitats with scattered shrubs and trees such as savanna or farmland. It lays its large clutch of 20-30 eggs in a well-hidden lined scrape, and the females incubate the eggs for 26-28 days. These guineafowl live as long ...
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#: 2956</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:17th Century</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Attributed to Marmaduke Craddock 1660-1717</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:24.80</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:24.02</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:A Guinea Fowl and Cuban Red Macaw </td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Traditional</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:oil on canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:oil on canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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