Eyre Crowe (1824-1910)

Browse the hyperlinked titles below to see more information about Eyre Crowe’s pictures from the 1850s, 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 1850s and its importance, read the essay.

• The Boulogne Fisher’s Wife (1850). Medium: oil. Exhibited: British Institution, 1850
• Mrs Eugenie Maria Wynne, nee Crowe (c.1850). Medium: oil
• J.M.W. Turner (1851 or 1852). Medium: sketch. Mentioned in diary, 1904, that Crowe was copying his original sketch made at the Royal Academy Private View
• Portrait of William Makepeace Thackeray (c.1852). Medium: watercolour. Size: 38 x 27 cm. Owner: University of California Los Angeles (Clark Artwork Box 16A/Folder 2).
• Henry James senior (1853). Medium: oil. According to Crowe in With Thackeray in America, he painted this portrait in New York while travelling in America as Thackeray’s secretary, and presented it to Mrs James. Their son Henry James, the novelist, remembered the occasion and described it in his autobiography.
• After the Sale: Slaves going South (1853). Medium: oil.
• Cook: a sketch (1853). Medium: pen and coloured wash
• Nurse: a sketch (1853). Medium: pen and coloured wash
• Margaret Crowe (1853). Crowe sketched his mother on her deathbed in Paris in 1853. In July 1902, when he mentioned this in his diary, the sketch was in the possession of his niece Frances Maria Wynne.
• A Slave Sale in Charleston, South Carolina (1854). Medium: oil.
• Cardinal Richelieu and Pere Joseph etc. (1854). Medium: oil. Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1854
• Copy portrait of William Russell, Earl of Bedford (1854). Medium: pencil drawing
• Study after portrait of Edward Montagu, Lord Kimbolton (1854). Medium: pencil drawing
• The Bridge over the Seine opposite Mount Valerian (1855). Medium: watercolour over pencil. Size: 10 x 17 inches. This scene was auctioned at Sotheby’s on 21 May 1981. In 1855, Crowe was living in Paris. He had moved back to London by January 1856.
• The meeting of Louis XI and Edward IV on the Bridge of Pecquigny (1855). Medium: oil. This scene was auctioned at Sotheby’s on 16 May 1988. It fetched £2,200.
• Delivery Entrance of Palais des Beaux Arts at the Exposition Universelle of 1855 (1855). Medium: pen and black ink, brush and gray wash over graphite.
• Sculpture Gallery door-way at the Exposition Universelle, Paris (1855). Medium: pen, ink and wash
• Louis XI at Sainte Chapelle, Paris (n.d., possibly c.1855). Medium: ink drawing.
• Joseph Archer Crowe (1855). The existence of this portrait of Crowe’s brother is known through Crowe’s diary entry for 31 December 1902, in which he wrote that it had been unfortunately damaged in falling off the wall of his home.
• American Scene (1855). Medium: oil.
• Untitled Painting Depicting Wooden Boats on the Shore, 3 October 1855 (1855). Medium: painted sketch
• Portrait of M. Minie (1855). Reference in diary, July 1894, to receiving 2 guineas from Blanchard Jerrold for publication of Crowe’s portrait (uncredited) in the Illustrated London News, 3 March 1855
• Taking an after-dinner whiff at Charleston, Carolina (1856). Medium: ink drawing
• General Cass in the Senate, Washington (1856). Medium: ink drawing
• Glimpse of ‘Change, New York (1856). Medium: ink drawing
• Negro expulsion from railway car, Philadelphia (1856). Medium: ink drawing
• Close of business at Wall-Street, New York (1856). Medium: ink drawing
• Young America, Boston (1856). Medium: ink drawing
• Theodore Parker lecturing in New York (1856). Medium: ink drawing
• Slave Auction at Richmond, Virginia (1856). Medium: ink drawing.
• Baltimore, Maryland (1856). Medium: ink drawing
• Slaves Waiting for Sale, Virginia (1856). Medium: ink drawing
• The Negro Reveillee, Charlestown (1856). Medium: ink drawing
• Boswell’s Introduction to the Literary Club (1856). Medium: oil.
• Copy portrait of Dorothea Countess of Sunderland (1856). Medium: pencil drawing
• A Scene at the Mitre: Dr Johnson, Boswell, Goldsmith (1857). Medium: oil.
• Sketch for Pope’s Introduction to Dryden (1857). Medium: black chalk drawing, heightened with red. Size: 21 x 15 inches. Current owner: Private collection, purchased from Abbott & Holder for £150, 26 October 1991. The drawing is inscribed (erroneously) on the mount ‘Alexander Pope’.
• Hauling the boat ashore – coast of France (1857). Medium: oil.
• Goldsmith and his nieces (1858). Medium: oil. This painting was auctioned on 17 May 1860 at Foster’s in London.
• Benjamin Franklin at Watts’s in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, A.D. 1725 (1858). Medium: oil.
• Pope’s Introduction to Dryden, at Wills’ Coffee House (1858). Medium: oil.
• Sir Richard Steele Writing to his Wife / Steele and his Children (1858). Medium: oil
• Milton Visiting Galileo in the Prisons of the Inquisition (1859). Medium: oil.
• The Roundhead (1859). Medium: oil.