‘The Concertina Player of Trafalgar Square’ by Eyre Crowe A.R.A. (1902). Reproduction from Royal Academy Pictures, 1902, p. 107
Medium: oil
Size: 10 x 14 inches
Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1902
Crowe worked on this picture periodically from October 1894. It depicts Jacob Oxford, a dwarf who used to squat in Trafalgar Square ‘some years back’.
Two unframed oil paintings or sketches, both entitled ‘The Cripple Beggar of Charing Cross’, and both sized at 10 x 14 inches – the same size as the painting exhibited at the Royal Academy – remained in Eyre Crowe’s possession at his death and were sold at auction by Messrs Furber in 1911. One sold for 2 shillings and one for 3 shillings. It is possible that one of them was the Royal Academy exhibit ‘The Concertina Player of Trafalgar Square’.
Eyre Crowe (1824-1910) 