Pictures of the 1840s

Eyre Crowe’s earliest known works date from his late teenage years and from his trip to Rome with his master Paul Delaroche in 1843-1844. In 1846 he exhibited his first work at the Royal Academy summer exhibition.

Browse the hyperlinked titles below to see more information about Eyre Crowe’s pictures from the 1840s. Where there is no hyperlink, no more details are known.

  • Vegetable Market at Frankfurt (1843). Medium: Pencil drawing
  • Roman Peasant Woman, Seated (1843). Medium: Pencil and red and black chalk drawing
  • St Paolo alle tra Fontane (1844). Medium: pen and brown ink and watercolour. Size: 21½ x 28 cm.  Signed and dated April 2nd 1844. This drawing was auctioned at Christie’s on 6 March 1996 along with five other unframed watercolours by Crowe (sizes not given): Amphitheatre of Tusculum, Black Gang Chine, St Leon, Lyon and others. Price realised: £127
  • Capo le Case, Rome (1844). Medium: painted sketch
  • William Makepeace Thackeray / Self-portrait [?] (1845). Medium: watercolour
  • William Makepeace Thackeray sketch (1845). Medium: pen and ink sketch
  • Hampstead, June 15th 1845 (1845). Medium: watercolour sketch
  • Boulogne sur Mer (1846). Medium: pencil drawing. Current owner: Tate Gallery, London
  • Master Prynne Searching Archbishop Laud’s Pockets in the Tower (1846) / Soldiers Meeting (1870). Medium: oil
  • Tower of London – Inside and Outside Views (1846). Medium: pencil drawing. Size: 5 x 6 inches; and 3.5 x 6 inches. Offered on Ebay in Sep 2005 by Raye Dean Gilbert, Fine Art Dealers
  • Copy portrait of Louis XIII (1846). Medium: pencil drawing
  • Life drawing of a standing female nude (1846). Medium: pencil and charcoal
  • The Battle of Agincourt (1847). Medium: cartoon in oil
  • Boulogne Girl Knitting (1848). Medium: oil. Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1848
  • The meeting of Dante and Beatrice (1848). Medium: oil
  • Luther (1848). Medium: oil. Crowe mentioned this work and its rejection from the Royal Academy exhibition on 1848 in one of his diaries.
  • Portrait of a Girl (1848). Medium: pencil. Size: 21½ x 18 cm. This drawing was put up for auction in 2001.
  • The Roman Carnival (1848). Medium: oil. Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1848
  • Holbein drawing the Infant Son of Henry VII and his Nurse, Mother Jack (1849). Medium: oil. Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1849
  • Boulogne Fisher Boy (1849). Medium: charcoal and white chalk. Private owner
  • Maifod [from the River Vyrnwy] (1849). Medium: pencil with colour wash and white heightening. Size: 210 x 245 mm. Owner: National Library of Wales. Full description available on the library’s catalogue
  • Self-portrait as a young man (n.d., 1840s?). According to the Dictionary of National Biography (1912), this picture was owned by Eyre Crowe’s half-sister in Paris

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