Marianne Croker


Marianne Croker was an English watercolour painter and author of the 19th century.

Early life

Croker was born as Marianne Nicholson. Croker's father was Francis Nicholson, a leading watercolourist. Croker had a brother, Alfred.

Career

Some time after 1818, Croker and her brother Alfred made the acquaintance of Thomas Crofton Croker, then a civil servant with antiquarian interests. The three made a number of trips to the south of Ireland to gather material for a proposed publication - Researches in the South of Ireland - to which Marianne contributed illustrations.
In Marianne, Thomas Crocker found a partner sharing the same interests and talents as he; the two made numerous visits to Ireland in support of Thomas's later publications dealing with Celtic folklore. Her extensive contributions to his work are largely unacknowledged.
Croker was the author of two books, Barney Mahoney and My Village Versus Our Village - both published at her request under her husband's name. Croker also exhibited a number of landscape paintings.

Personal life

In 1830, Croker married Thomas Crofton Croker, a civil servant with interests in antiquity. They had one child, Thomas Francis Dillon Croker, an amateur antiquary and poet.
On 6 October 1854, Croker died in England, two months after the death of her husband.
On 10 October 1854, Croker was buried at Brompton Cemetery in London, England.