Medium: oil
Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1887
Athenaeum, 28 May 1887:
… slightly rough and opaque is Arithmetic (800), an illustration of life in the Red Maids’ School at Bristol, where Mr. E. Crowe previously found a good subject. The animated and highly expressive faces of the girls in red gowns and white capes are well placed in the warm and well-lit interior of the room.
Illustrated London News, 30 May 1887:
… such pleasant contributions as … Mr. Eyre Crowe’s ‘Arithmetic’ (800) which, however, recalls somewhat too vividly a previously exhibited reminiscence of the Red Maids’ School at Bristol. [Darning Day: Red Maids’ School, Bristol, in 1876]
A pencil drawing with watercolour, size: 8 x 7 inches, and entitled ‘The Schoolroom’ was offered on Ebay, Apr 2005, June 2006 and Sep 2008, dated 1880, by a dealer in Stafford, ‘From an album which contained 95 pencil/pen and watercolour sketches dated between 1845-1897 with many signed, dated,and inscribed’. It was offered again in May 2009, this time dated 1886 and described as a preparatory sketch for a Royal Academy work – perhaps Arithmetic (1887)
Eyre Crowe (1824-1910) 