Crawford, William, ARSA
1822 – 1869
RSA Annual Report 1869 Obituary, Notice IX: "The Council have also to record the death, on the 1st August, after a very short illness, of William Crawford, ARSA. He, like Mr. Lauder, had been at one time a master in the School of Design, but for some years before his death he had given himself exclusively to the practice of his profession, in which, as is well known, he achieved considerable distinction. While nearly all the departments of Figure-Painting came within his scope, his Portrait Pictures, and especially his Drawings in Crayons, stood deservedly high in popular estimation, Cut off in the prime of life, these works will testify to Mr. Crawford’s skill as an artist, while his friends will still continue to remember him as a man of no ordinary ability and intelligence."
