Military Honours (1889) (c) The Gordon Highlanders Museum; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation
Medium: oil
Size: 163 x 247½ cm
Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1889; Dundee, 1889
Current owners: The Gordon Highlanders Museum
Crowe spent a number of months at the end of 1888 and the beginning of 1889 in Scotland. The figures in ‘Military Honours’ were drawn from life from a number of soldiers of the Highland Regiment who sat for him in Aberdeen in the first weeks of 1889. An image of the painting was reproduced as a mezzograph in ‘Art and Literature’ (Glasgow), December 1889.
The painting was presented to the Regiment by Lady Dixon-Hartland in 1987.
The Pall Mall Gazette, 18 May 1889:
For a “tartanic” and “kilt” show Eyre Crowe takes the palm, in 648.
‘Musical pictures of the year’, The Musical World, 25 May 1889:
There are quite a cluster of musical pictures on the left wall of Gallery VII. “Military Honours” by “that Eyre Crowe”, introduces the pipers (luckily these are dumb!) and the drums…
Pall Mall Gazette, 7 June 1889:
Soldiers funeral kilted Regiment. Shocking bad calves the soldiers show – an Insult to Scotland.
Birmingham Daily Post, 7 June 1889:
We are at a loss to understand why … “Military Honours”, by Eyre Crowe, A.R.A., should have been reproduced at all. The sooner such work is forgotten the better.
Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 27 August 1889:
Among the artists who have promised to send pictures to the Fine Art Exhibition to be held in Dundee in October in connection with the inauguration of the Victoria Jubilee Art Galleries, are:- … Eyre Crowe, A.R.A.
Eyre Crowe (1824-1910) 