For over 30 years Mayberry Fine Art has quietly brokered sales for countless Canadian and International works of art from private collections.

We provide complete services to confidentially assist you with the sale of complete collections or single works of art.

What to expect when selling or consigning your artwork with Mayberry Fine Art

• Use our Appraisal and Valuation form to send us details on the work(s) of art you may wish to sell. Some of the details we will need include.
  • Artist Name
  • Size (measurements)
  • Date
  • Signature
  • When and where aquired
  • Condition
  • Good quality photograph
• After a fair market value has been agreed upon, we may need to examine the artwork for condition and authentication.
• In the case of larger works or collections which may be awkward to transport, we will visit your location to view the works.
• Crating and shipping is available when needed.
• Purchase options include outright purchase or consignment sale.
• Commission with regard to consignment sales is an agreed-upon percentage between Mayberry Fine Art and the seller. It is based on the value of the artwork. Commission on higher valued works can be as low as 5%.
• Unless specifically expressed otherwise all values and prices discussed or published are in Canadian funds.

Click here to complete the valuation form.

William N. Cresswell

OSA, RCA
1822 - 1888
 
William Nichol Cresswell was born in Shoreditch, London. Following studies under several noted British painters, he emigrated to Canada in 1848. There he settled on a remote farm in Tuckersmith Township in Huron County.

Although he did some farming, Cresswell was an artist, first and foremost. He quickly established himself in that capacity and began exhibiting at the Upper Canada Provincial Exhibition as of 1856, and continued to exhibit there every year until 1867. In 1866, he married Elizabeth R. Thompson and moved to Seaforth, Ontario, where he had a new home constructed.

Cresswell travelled extensively in Canada, to Georgian Bay in 1865, through Québec and New Hampshire in 1866, to Lake Nipigon in northern Ontario in 1876. In the 1880s he visited the Maritimes and spent some time on the Gaspé Peninsula, travelling to Grand Manan in New Brunswick. The themes of his paintings varied, depicting landscapes, both rural and wilderness,as well as wildlife. He also favoured maritime coastal scenes based on his travels in Atlantic Canada.

Cresswell continued to show his work at various exhibitions in Upper Canada and also in London, where he won a medal at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in 1886. In 1874 already he had been elected a member of the Ontario Society of Artists, and in 1880, he was a founding member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He was also known as an art educator, and began teaching the young Robert Ford Gagen in 1863, and thirteen years later, a young George Agnew Reid. In 1887, he escaped from another cold Ontario winter to southern California. He considered making California his permanent home, but died the next summer at his home in Seaforth.