It’s Eyre Crowe’s 200th birthday!
Eyre Crowe and his family moved back to London in 1844. He was 20 years old when he was accepted as a Probationer at the Royal Academy Schools on 11 July 1845. Dante Gabriel Rossetti joined on the same day. He became a full student on 19 December 1845. The initial part of the students’ training at this time was in the Antique School, making detailed hatched drawings of plaster casts and statues. They then progressed to the Life Academy and finally the School of Painting, and attended lectures. The Royal Academy of Arts was based in the National Gallery building on Trafalgar Square until 1869, when it moved to the current location at Burlington House, Piccadilly.
There is a digitised copy of the page showing Eyre Crowe’s entrance, from the Register of admission of probationers, 1824-1905. Royal Academy Collection, RAA/KEE/1/2.
Image: Drawing from Life at the Royal Academy (1808). Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827) and Augustus Charles Pugin (1762–1832) (after) John Bluck (fl. 1791–1819), Joseph Constantine Stadler (fl. 1780–1812), Thomas Sutherland (1785–1838), J. Hill, and Harraden (aquatint engravers)
Eyre Crowe (1824-1910) 
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