an English painter. Cristall's usual subjects in his early years were classical figures with landscapes, such as his Lycidas, Judgment of Paris, Hylas and the Nymphs, and Diana and Endymion, but he afterwards produced genre subjects and rustic groups. Around 1813, he tried portrait painting, generally small full-lengths with landscape backgrounds, in which he used no body-colour. As a watercolour painter, Cristall will always hold an honourable position from the freedom and simplicity of his style and manner of execution.
