Eyre Crowe (1824-1910)

Browse the hyperlinked titles below to see more information about Eyre Crowe’s pictures from the 1860s, 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 1860s and its importance, read the essay.

• Dean Swift at St. James’s Coffee House, 1710 (1860). Medium: oil
• A Dead Stork on the Bank of a Stream (1860). Medium: chalk. Current owner: Victoria and Albert Museum, London (FA 635). Image and details on the V&A Collections website
• Sketch of three female figures (1861). Medium: drawing. Size: 6.5 x 4.5 inches (16.5 x 11 cm). Offered on Ebay, Sep 2004, and sold by Fellows and Sons of London for £55, 14 Sep 2004. Offered again on Ebay, January 2011. Signed and dated ‘From Horreman’s, Dublin’, 26 Oct. 1861.
• A Barber’s Shop at Richmond, Virginia (1861). Medium: oil.
• Slaves Waiting for Sale: Richmond, Virginia (1861). Medium: oil.
• The Secession Movement – Entrance Hall to an hotel at Charleston, South Carolina (c.1861). Medium: ink drawing.
• Selling Sweet Potatoes in Charleston (c.1861). Medium: ink drawing.
• The Charleston Palmetto (c.1861). Medium: ink drawing
• David Garrick portrait (1861). Medium: charcoal on paper. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Owner: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. A copy of a portrait in the possession of Lord Lansdowne.
• High Street, Richmond, Virginia (c.1862). Medium: ink drawing.
• Mrs Milliken Leaning on her Harp (1862). An illustration from W.M. Thackeray’s Lovel the Widower, painted by Crowe as a housewarming present for Thackeray, according to Thackeray’s Haunts and Homes, p. 72.
• Henry and Lucy Jervis-White-Jervis (1862). According to his diary, Crowe painted a portrait of his friends the Jervises in January 1862.
• De Foe in the Pillory (1862). Medium: oil.
• Marriage at Cana (1862). Mentioned in Crowe’s diary for December 1862.
• Cartoons for mosaics for the International Exhibition (1862). Mentioned in Crowe’s diary. Inspired by the Great Exhibition of 1851, and comprising artworks, historical and modern objects from around the world, the 1862 Exhibition was held over the road from the South Kensington Museum and opened to the public on 1 May. It is not known whether Crowe’s designs were accepted or ever made into mosaics.
• Brick Court, Middle Temple, April 1774 / Goldsmith’s Mourners (1862). Medium: oil on panel
• Christopher Wren/ William Hogarth (1863). Medium: oil.
• Amy Crowe (1863). Medium: oil.
• Luther Posting his Theses on the Church Door of Wittenberg (1864). Medium: oil.
• Dean Swift Looking at a Lock of Stella’s Hair (1864). Medium: oil.
• Garrick presenting Mrs Garrick her portrait in a mirror / Garrick and his Wife (1864). Size: 30 x 24 inches.
• Whitefield Preaching in Moorfields, A.D. 1742 (1865). Medium: oil.
• Dunnottar Churchyard (1865). Medium: ink drawing: Size: 7 x 4.5 inches. Signed and dated 30 May 1865. Offered on Ebay, Jan 2006, by Raye Dean Gilbert, Fine Art Dealers. Offered again, June 2007, by a dealer from Houston, Texas
• Sketches from Prague (1865). Medium: pencil drawings on one sheet. Size: 8 x 7 inches. Signed and dated 25 July 1865. Offered on Ebay, Sep 2004, Apr 2005 and Jan 2006, by a dealer in Stafford.
• The Betrothal of Burns and Highland Mary (1866). Medium: oil.
• Reynolds’ First Sketch (1866). Medium: oil.
• Competitive Examination (1866). Medium: oil.
• Jean-François Millet (1866). Medium: pencil drawing. Size: 14.5 x 10 inches. Auctioned by Halls Estate Agents, Agricultural and Fine Art Auctioneers, Valuers and Surveyors, Shrewsbury, 16 Dec 2005 (£80)
• Charles II Knighting the Loin of Beef (1867). Medium: oil.
• Robespierre Looking at the Guillotine Carts Passing (1867). Medium: oil.
• Suff[–] Janet at St James’ Palace’ (1867), a sketch from the British Museum. Medium: pencil drawing. Size: 4.5 x 7.5 inches. Signed and dated 3 October 1867. Offered on Ebay, Sep 2005, by Raye Dean Gilbert, Fine Art Dealers
• Eyre Evans Crowe (c.1868). Size: 40 x 24 inches. Exhibited: International Portrait Exhibition, 1868
• A Chiffonier (1868). Medium: oil.
• Mary Stuart, February 8th, 1586 (1868). Medium: oil.
• A Sculptor with a Nude Model and Two Pupils (1868). Medium: lunette decoration
• Frères Ignorantins (1868). Medium: oil.
• Through the Wood (1868). Medium: oil. Exhibited at the Dudley Gallery winter exhibition, 1868. Nothing further is known about this painting
• Beggars (1868-1869). Crowe mentioned in his diary during this period undertaking many sketches of beggars.
• Shingling Pipe, Stourbridge (1869). Medium: pencil drawing. Size: 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Signed and dated ‘Water pipe to cool the steam ‘helve’ for ‘shingling’. Stourbridge Iron Works 1869′. It was probably a sketch used in Shinglers. Offered on Ebay, Mar 2006, by Raye Dean Gilbert, Fine Art Dealers
• Shinglers / The Foundry (1869). Medium: oil.
• The Jacobite (1869). Medium: oil.
• The Penance of Dr. Johnson, 1784 (1869). Medium: oil.
• Returning from Church (1869). Medium: oil.
• The Village Fountain (1869). Medium: oil.