Isaac cruikshank biography

​CRUIKSHANK, ISAAC (1756?–1811?), caricaturist and water-colour painter, born about 1756, was the son of a lowlander, who at one time held an appointment in the custom-house at Leith, and after the disasters of the '45 took to art as a profession.

Left an orphan at an early age Cruikshank also became an artist, earning a precarious subsistence as a book illustrator, water-colour painter, and political ​caricaturist of the Gillray and Rowlandson type.

Isaac robert cruikshank

Isaac robert cruikshank

Isaac Robert Cruikshank, sometimes known as Robert Cruikshank (27 September – 13 March ), was a caricaturist, illustrator and portrait miniaturist.

Robert cruickshank silversmith

Isaac Cruikshank, painter and caricaturist, was born in Edinburgh.

Isaac Cruikshank (?–), a popular illustrator and caricaturist.

Two examples of his water-colours, ‘The Lost Child’ and ‘The Child Found,’ are included in the William Smith gift to the South Kensington Museum, and he appears to have exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1789–90 and 1792. In 1791 his signature as designer is affixed to ‘Mrs.

Thrale's Breakfast Table,’ the frontispiece to a book entitled ‘Witticisms and Jests of Dr. Samuel Johnson.’ One of the earliest of his political squibs, according to Wri