After a Run (1873)

Medium: oil

Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1873; International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876

The painting was offered as a £400 drawing prize by a new art union which was proposed at Manley Hall in Manchester in August 1875 (Manchester Times, 21 August 1875). The newspaper explained that prizes had been purchased through Messrs Thomas Agnew and Sons, suggesting that the painting was at time in their possession. The scheme collapsed and the painting was not in the end given as a prize.

After a Run was exhibited at the International Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. It was auctioned in London on 27 March 1909, making £16 6s 0d.

Daily Telegraph, 29 March 1873:

29 March 1873

“After a Run” shows us the hunt happily arrived by chance at the door of a Bedfordshire squire, who hospitably sends round servants with brimming glasses of ale to refresh the sportsmen and excite them anew to the chase.

Athenaeum, 10 May 1873:

…shows a hunting party halted at the door of a country inn: some, the ladies especially, are gossipping; one or two take refreshments. All the figures are expressive, the actions are varied and truthful, proving the forethought of the designer and his wealth of invention. The horses, not less than the riders, are admirably drawn, and justify the labour expended on the subject, which is, however, not worthy of the ability of the artist. This picture, as a whole, is very bright and faithful.

The Era, 11 May 1873

No. 45, After a Run, by Eyre Crowe (33, Langham-street), is a lively hunting piece, admirable in colour and well drawn.

The Times, 26 June 1873:

Mr. Eyre Crowe, who usually sends us some embodiment of literary anecdote, has this year confined himself to bits of contemporary life of the more prosaic kind. If even such subjects as … the halt of a hunting part (45) for sherry and ale in front of a hospitable country house … can be made interesting by sincerity and conscientiousness of treatment, what fruit might not be expected from a deeper and tenderer or even more daring grasp of contemporary life?

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