Elizabeth Creed

Elizabeth Creed (née Pickering; 1642–1728) was a daughter of Sir Gilbert Pickering, Bart., cousin to the poet John Dryden, and a second cousin to Samuel Pepys.^[1] She married a gentleman named Creed, of Oundle in Northamptonshire, and, on his death occupied herself in painting as an amateur, and gratuitously instructing young girls in fine needlework and other feminine arts.^[2] Many churches in the neighbourhood of Oundle were decorated with altarpieces and various artistic adornments from her industrious and pious hands.^[2] At Drayton, in the collection of the Earls of Peterborough, was a portrait of the first Earl of Sandwich; and Mrs. Creed's descendants possessed many portraits and some pictures by her.^[2] She died May, 1728.^[2]

References

• 2 Paintings by Elizabeth Creed at the BBC Your Paintings site
• This article incorporates text from the article "CREED, Elizabeth" 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.