‘Old Porch, Evesham’ by Eyre Crowe A.R.A. (1883)
Medium: oil
Size: 20 x 29 inches
Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1883
This painting was offered for auction at Gorringe’s in Lewes, East Sussex, under the title Maids beside a church doorway, on 22 July 2004, with an estimated price of £800-£1200, but was not sold. It was offered again by the same auction house on 7 September 2004, and sold for £280.
Daily Telegraph, 12 May 1884
(11) Mr. Eyre Crowe, A.R.A.’s “Old Porch, Evesham” is full of earnest, thorough, and loving laboriousness of painstaking. Mr. Eyre Crowe is assuredly not to be ranked among the Associates who are of opinion that it “is always afternoon” and eat lotuses or swallow musk pills accordingly.
Athenaeum, 2 June 1883:
Mr. Eyre Crowe’s Old Porch, Evesham (11), a study, with figures, of the well-known entrance to the church at Evesham, can boast of careful and solid painting of the Gothic stonework, and is rather richer in tone than is usual with Mr. Crowe; but it is deficient in brilliancy and clearness, qualities essential to architecture in sunlight.
Eyre Crowe (1824-1910) 