‘A Rifle Match – at Dunnottar, N.B.’ by Eyre Crowe A.R.A. (1890). Reproduction from Royal Academy Pictures, 1890, p. 61
Medium: oil
Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1890
The Leeds Mercury, 20 May 1891
Perhaps the least successful picture of any size is Mr. Eyre Crowe’s “Rifle Match at Dunnottar” (794), where the colossal figure at full-length which occupies the centre of the picture effectually destroys one’s sense of the surrounding scenery.
Illustrated London News, 31 May 1890:
Mr Eyre Crowe’s ‘Rifle Match’ (794) introduces to our notice a Volunteer of at least nine feet in length, in the act of discharging his rifle in a direction which suggests a very strange trajectory.
The Times, 20 June 1890:
Further to the right, above a very poor performance by Mr. Eyre Crowe …
Eyre Crowe (1824-1910) 