Hauling the Boat Ashore (1871) – no! 1857!

November 22, 2024
‘Hauling the boat ashore – coast of France’ by Eyre Crowe (1857)

This exquisite painting first came to my attention in 2010 when its owners kindly let me know about it. It was thought to have been dated 1871, and this was the date that Atkins Auctions also gave it when it was put up for sale at their auction house in Devon in 2022.

However, it actually dates from around 15 years earlier. I have just discovered a reference to Eyre Crowe’s Hauling the Boat Ashore – Scene at Portel, Coast of France, dated 1857, in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index. The index entry reveals that the painting travelled to America, and was shown in New York as part of the American exhibition of British Art in the autumn of 1857. There is a very interesting article about the exhibition by Dennis T. Lanigan on the excellent The Victorian Web site.

For the full write-up of this painting, see my page Hauling the Boat Ashore (1857).

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Searching the Royal Academy Collections

February 19, 2013

The Royal Academy’s collection of works of art, books, archives and exhibition catalogues can be searched online. There aren’t many results for Eyre Crowe – just some photographs – but a new series of catalogues of winter and special exhibitions has just been added to the database, and reveals that five of Eyre Crowe’s works were shown in the 1922 exhibition of Works by Recently Deceased Members of the Royal Academy:

Only the first of these works were previously known to me.

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Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey

May 6, 2010

There are just over two weeks to go before the Delaroche exhibition closes at the National Gallery. Eyre Crowe studied at Paul Delaroche’s studio in Paris between 1839 and 1843, and accompanied him to Rome in the autumn of 1843. Unfortunately the exhibition doesn’t include any of Eyre Crowe’s work, but is worth seeing anyway!

More on Delaroche’s life and work.

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