Eyre Crowe (painter)

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For the British diplomat, see Eyre Crowe.
Slaves Waiting for Sale: Richmond, Virginia
The Dinner Hour, Wigan (1874), depicting mill girls relaxing at lunchtime

Eyre Crowe ARA (1824–1910) was a British author and painter, principally of historical art and genre scenes, but with an interest in social realism.

Early life[]

He was born in London, and grew up in France. He was the eldest son of the journalist Eyre Evans Crowe and brother of the journalist, diplomat and art historian Joseph Archer Crowe, whose son Eyre Crowe became an important diplomat. He was a pupil of and later of Paul Delaroche in Paris.

Career[]

He traveled in the United States as amanuensis to William Makepeace Thackeray between 1852 and 1853. He published With Thackeray in America (1893) and Thackeray's Haunts and Homes (1897).

He exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy in London between 1846 and 1908. In 1876 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy.

Selected Works[]

  • A Slave Sale in Charleston, South Carolina (1854; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba)
  • Slaves Waiting for Sale: Richmond, Virginia (1861; Private collection)
  • Defoe in the Pillory (1862; Salford Museum and Art Gallery)
  • Brick Court or Death of Goldsmith (1863)
  • Luther Pasting his Theses on the Church Door of Wittenberg (1864)
  • Shinglers or The Foundry (1869)
  • The Penance of Dr Johnson, 1784 (1869)
  • The Dinner Hour, Wigan (1874; Manchester Art Gallery)
  • A Sheep-Shearing Match (1875)
  • Sandwiches (1881)
  • Convicts at Work, Portsmouth (1887)
  • Nelson Leaving England for the Last Time (1888)
  • The Founder of English Astronomy (1891; see Jeremiah Horrocks)
  • The Brigs of Ayr (1894)
  • The Gipsy's Rest (1897)
  • Trial for Bigamy (1897)
  • James II at the Battle of La Hogue (1898)

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