Engraving of ‘A Barber’s Shop at Richmond, Virginia’ by Eyre Crowe (1861)
Medium: oil
Exhibited: British Institution, 1861
This painting was exhibited at the British Institution in 1861, when it was valued at 35 guineas (£35 15s 0d) and was reproduced in Eyre Crowe’s own book of reminiscences of his American trip, With Thackeray in America, in 1893. An engraving of the painting also appeared as the cover page of the Illustrated London News on 9 March 1861.
The Getty Provenance Index has the painting listed in the stockbook of M. Knoedler & Co, New York, in 1967, having been purchased from Mrs Percy Byron.
Illustrated London News, 9 March 1861:
Another picture which we engrave in our present Issue is of a widely different character – Eyre Crowe’s “Barber Shop at Richmond, Virginia” (260). Without putting forth high pretensions as a work of art it is, from the nature of its subject, invested with a local interest at the present moment which will recommend it to the attention of many of our travelled readers.
Eyre Crowe (1824-1910) 