Marmaduke Cradock (1660 – 24 March 1716) was a British painter.
Cradock was an English painter of birds, dead game, and other animals, in which he particularly excelled. He was born in Somerton and served an apprenticeship to a house-painter in London. Without the help of an instructor, he became a faithful delineator of birds and animals, which he painted with a freedom and a fire that entitled him to more distinction and a more liberal remuneration than he received during his life. After his death in London his works were sold at three or four times the price he received for them when living.
According to the RKD he was a still life and bird painter who was influenced by Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Peter Frans Casteels, and Jakob Bogdani.[1]
This article incorporates text from the article "CRADOCK, Luke" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.