Eyre Crowe (1824-1910)

Browse the hyperlinked titles below to see more information about Eyre Crowe’s pictures from the 1890s, 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 1890s and its importance, read the essay.

• A Rifle Match – at Dunnottar, N.B. (1890). Medium: oil
• Sir Joseph Archer Crowe K.C.M.G. (1891). Medium: oil
• The Founder of English Astronomy / Horrocks Seeing the Actual Transit of Venus (1891). Medium: oil
• Writing a Message to St Helena (1891). Medium: oil
• Rude’s Model Head (1891). Medium: ink drawing
• After The Great Gale: Repairing a Steeple (1891). Medium: ink drawing. Sketch of steeplejacks repairing the steeple of Bromsgrove parish church, published in The Daily Graphic along with an explanatory letter from Eyre Crowe to the Editor, 19 November 1891
• Lady Coventry’s Escort (1892). Medium: oil
• Dial on centre of Auld Brig of Ayr (1892). Medium: pencil drawing
• Peg of Limavaddy (1893). Medium: oil
• W B Scott (1893-1904). Medium: oil? This portrait of Crowe’s friend was mentioned frequently in his diaries between 1893 and 1904, but seems never to have been finished.
• Farmhouse in the Boulonnais (1894). Medium: oil
• Foundling Hospital (1894). Medium: oil
• The Brigs of Ayr (1894). Medium: oil
• Walter Morrison M.P., reading in the Reform Club (1894). Medium: ink drawing. Size: 32½ x 20 cm. Current owner: Private collection. This sketch portrait came up for auction in 2000. Walter Morrison was a member of the Reform Club, which Eyre Crowe joined in 1861.
• Proclamation of George I at the Exchange (1894). Medium: oil. Crowe mentioned this historical composition in his 1894 diary, but it was apparently never made into a completed picture.
• Studies of a bust of John Bright by D.W. Stevenson (1894). Medium: pencil and ink drawings.
• Albatross (1894). Medium: ink drawing. Size: 8 x 6.25 inches. Offered on Ebay, Nov 2005, by Raye Dean Gilbert, Fine Art Dealers. Dated 9 Feb 1894, at Newcastle.
• Anti-Corn Law Meeting (1894). Medium: unknown. Mentioned in diary, worked up sketch from a rough outline made in 1846
• Smith (1894). Medium: ink drawing. Size: 6.25 x 5.75 inches. Offered on Ebay, Dec 2005, by Raye Dean Gilbert, Fine Art Dealers. Signed and dated 14 May 1894.
• A Baptism in the Cathedral of Newcastle upon Tyne / Parson Christening Children (1895). Medium: oil
• Fishermen’s Home, Great Yarmouth (1895). Medium: oil
• Le Petit Chapeau: The Hat Worn by the Emperor Napoleon at Waterloo (1895). Medium: oil
• The Mourners – a Corner of the Sailors’ Home, Bristol (1895). Medium: oil
• Thomas Carlyle Looking at the Duke of Buccleuch’s Miniatures of Cromwell, his Wife and Daughter (1895). Medium: oil
• Charles IX (1896). Medium: oil
• Drawing Lots for the Guelph Succession at Celle, A.D. 1592 (1896). Medium: oil
• St Denis (1896). Medium: ink drawing. Size: 8 x 6 inches. Offered on Ebay, Nov 2005, by Raye Dean Gilbert, Fine Art Dealers.
• The Gipsy’s Rest (painted sketch) (c.1896). Medium: ink painting
• The Gipsy’s Rest / The Gipsy Encampment (1897). Medium: oil
• The Crow-Boy (1897). Medium: oil
• Trial for Bigamy (1897). Medium: oil
• Peter the Great (1897). Medium: oil. Crowe mentioned this historical composition in his 1897 diary, but it was apparently never made into a completed picture.
• Young Girl with Cat (1897). Medium: ink drawing. Size: 5 x 7.5 inches. Offered on Ebay, Sep 2005, by Raye Dean Gilbert, Fine Art Dealers.
• Madame Millet (1897). Medium: drawing. Size: 5 x 4 inches. Offered on Ebay, Jan 2006, by Raye Dean Gilbert, Fine Art Dealers. Signed and dated Cherbourg August 12 1897.
• Architectural Column (1897). Medium: ink drawing. Size: 8.5 x 4.5 inches. Offered on Ebay, Mar 2006, by Raye Dean Gilbert, Fine Art Dealers. Signed and dated July 2 1897.
• James II at La Hogue, May 1692 (1898). Medium: oil
• Moulin Rouge (1898). Medium: oil on panel? Reference in diary to painting a ‘little panel’ of the ‘Moulin Rouge’
• Colonel Newcome on the Ramparts (1898). Composition mentioned in diary, unknown medium
• Latimer in Bailie’s house in Oxford (1899). Painted sketch mentioned in diary
• Crossing the Brook (1899). Medium: oil
• J F Millet in his Studio at Barbizon (1899). Medium: oil
• On the Boulogne Ramparts (1899). Medium: oil
• The Way to the Farm / A Country Lane (1899). Medium: oil
• Napoleon (1899). Medium: pencil drawing. Size: 31 x 20 cm. Image on MutualArt. Dated ’31 Jany 1899’, this drawing is very similar to the central figure in 1902’s Napoleon’s Abdication, who can actually be identified as Marshal Ney. The drawing was put up for auction on 29 January 2021.
• Lady reading, seen from the rear (1899). Medium: pencil drawing. Size: 32.5 x 18.5 cm. Offered for auction by Rosebery’s, West Norwood, London, 4 October 2014 (lot 638) and again 17 January 2015 (Lot 415), with estimate of £120 – £180 (2014) and £70 – £100 (2015). The auction listing gave the provenance as ‘with Covent Garden Gallery Ltd., London, according to label attached to the reverse of the frame’. Attributed only to Eyre Crowe, but looks similar to his other works. Dated March 14 99. Sold along with ‘British School, early 20th century- Study of a lady sleeping; pencil, black and white chalk on buff paper, 23x36cm’ – no image is available online, and it is unclear if this was also attributed to Eyre Crowe
• Leah Bateman Hunter (1899). Medium: pen and ink sketch. Mentioned in diary, sketched at her grandmother Kate Crowe’s house. Leah was 7 years old
• Doctor Johnson Receiving Boswell in the Library (1899). Medium: oil on canvas