Eyre Crowe (1824-1910)

Browse the hyperlinked titles below to see more information about Eyre Crowe’s pictures from the 1870s, and images and published reviews where these are available. Where there is no hyperlink, no more details are known.

For an overview of Eyre Crowe’s work in the 1870s and its importance, read the essay.

• The Vestal (1870). Medium: oil.
• Soldiers Meeting (1870). Medium: oil on canvas. See Master Prynne Searching Archbishop Laud’s Pockets in the Tower (1846)
• Old Mortality (1871). Medium: oil.
• Friends (1871). Medium: oil.
• Girl arranging roses (1871); and Lovers (1871). Copyright certificates for these works, dated 24 October 1871, exist in the archives of the University of Wales, Bangor (Garthewin Additional Collection of manuscripts [1586 (i)]), but nothing more is known about them.
• Bob-Cherry (1871). Medium: oil.
• Out of School (1872). Medium: oil.
• Tiff / The Bench by the Sea (1872). Medium: oil.
• Stone Bench (1872). Medium: pencil drawing.
• Howard Succouring the Galley Slaves at Venice, A.D. 1778 (1872). Medium: oil.
• After a Run (1873). Medium: oil.
• After Work (1873). Medium: oil.
• Brothers of the Brush (1873). Medium: oil.
• Tethered (1873). Medium: oil.
• At the Pit-Door (1873). Medium: oil.
• The Dinner Hour, Wigan (1874). Medium: oil.
• A Spoil Bank (1874). Medium: oil.
• Foxhounds in Kennel (1874). Medium: oil.
• Going to Market (1874). Medium: oil on canvas. Size: 10 x 16 inches. This painting was signed and dated ‘EC 1874’ and identified as the work of Eyre Crowe. It was auctioned by Sotheby’s in New York on 28 May 1981 (19th century European paintings). The signature is not his usual style, and I would say the identification as his work is only tentative
• A Sheep-Shearing Match (1875). Medium: oil.
• Handing the Brush (1875). Medium: oil.
• The French Savants in Egypt, 1798 (1875). Medium: oil.
• Studies for a picture at the Royal Academy (c.1875). Medium: sketch. Exhibited at 1875 Dudley Gallery Black and White Exhibition

On 12 April 1876, Eyre Crowe was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Arts. He had already submitted his paintings for the 1876 Summer Exhibition, which opened to the public at the beginning of May.

• The Rehearsal (1876). Medium: oil.
• Darning Day: Red Maids’ School, Bristol (1876). Medium: oil.
• Sanctuary (1877). Medium: oil.
• Silkworms (1877). Medium: oil.
• Prayer (1877). Medium: oil.
• Bridal Procession at St. Maclou, Rouen (1877). Medium: oil.
• Boys of Blue Coat School, London (1877). Medium: oil on panel. Size: 17 x 24 cm. This painting was offered at auction in 1991.
• Initials (1877). Medium: oil.
• Hodge (1877). Medium: oil.
• Woman with Hat (1877). Medium: ink drawing. Size: 5.75 x 3.75 inches. Signed and dated 16 Oct 1877. Offered on Ebay, Nov 2005, by Raye Dean Gilbert, Fine Art Dealers
• School Treat (1878). Medium: oil.
• A Quiet Read (1878). Medium: oil.
• Study after portrait of Lady Anne Bingham by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1878). Medium: pencil drawing
• Three Pigeons/Doves (1878). Medium: pencil drawing. Size: 8¾ x 6¾ inches. Offered on Ebay, July 2010, by a dealer in London
• Pets: Sidney, Mac and Dolls, The Grange, Aug 1878 (1878). Medium: pen and ink drawing
• Bluecoat Boys returning from their Holidays (1879). Medium: oil.
• Marat: 13th July, 1793 (1879). Medium: oil.
• The Blind Beggar (1879). Medium: oil.
• The Queen of the May (1879). Medium: oil.
• Execution of the Duc d’Enghien, 1804 (1879). Medium: oil.
• Horsemonger Lane Gaol, or the Old Queen’s Bench Prison or Clink (1879). Medium: ink drawing. Size: 15 x 9 inches. Offered on Ebay, April 2005, and again in May 2012, by a dealer in Stafford. In 2012 its title was given as ‘The demolition of the old Queen’s Bench Prison September the 3rd 1879’
• Copy portraits of Giotto and Dante from the painting of the Last Judgement in the Arena Chapel, Padua (1879). Medium: pencil drawing.