’Trial for Bigamy’ sketch up for auction again

November 21, 2025

A painted sketch – the back of the frame signed Ey. Crowe, December 14th-15th 1896 – is up for auction again just over a year after it was last sold. It would seem to be a painted sketch of the scene at Leeds Crown Court which was afterwards worked up into the finished oil painting Trial for Bigamy, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1897. On the back is pasted a black and white photograph of the 1897 painting as published in ‘Royal Academy Pictures’.

Sold for £350 by Tennants of Leyburn last year, the painting is part of an auction at Mallams in Oxford on 10 December, with a guide price of £300 to £500.

Painting for sale through Tennants auctioneers, 2024

Reverse side of painting for sale through Tennants auctioneers, 2024

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A Lumber Yard, attributed to Eyre Crowe, sold at auction

February 9, 2025
Landscape scene showing brick buildings, tall trees and stacks of cut timber

This painting, unsigned, but attributed to Eyre Crowe on the basis of a fabric label ‘Crowe, E., Esq., 22 Feb 1898’ on the canvas stretcher bar, was sold at auction in Bedford on 7 February 2025 for a hammer price of £150. It is in the style of Crowe’s later landscape paintings, but unusual in not including any figures. It was perhaps unfinished and this could explain the lack of signature. Read more about it on the page for A Lumber Yard.

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