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]

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