Mary Anne Criddle

Mary Anne Criddle, (, c. 1805–1880) was an English oil and water colour painter. She was a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours and exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts.

Biography Criddle was born in 1805 at Chapel House, Holywell Mount in Shoreditch, East London. Her father and mother were straw hat and bonnet makers. She attended school in Colchester in Essex, until her father died in 1820. in 1849.

From 1852 to 1854, Criddle suffered partial blindness and stopped working, but was still working when her biography was written by the author and artist Ellen Creathorne Clayton in 1876.

Criddle was widowed in 1857 and moved to near Addlestone near Chertsey, Surrey, from where she continued to exhibit. She died there in 1880.