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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Maurie D. McInnes has just published Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade (Chicago University Press, 2011), which is a detailed and lavishly illustrated examination of Eyre Crowe’s picture Slaves Waiting For Sale (1861), as compared with other contemporary artworks relating to slavery in the American South.
Eyre Crowe visited the southern states of America in 1852-1853 and was intrigued and appalled by the slave trade there. His experiences led him to create a series of sketches and paintings intended to further the abolitionist cause. Each of these are described in more detail in the ‘Slavery Pictures’ part of this website.
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A digital image of Eyre Crowe’s 1855 sketch Delivery Entrance of Palais des Beaux Arts at the Exposition Universelle of 1855, owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has been made available on the Museum’s website. The sketch shows a busy scene as porters bring in works of art to be displayed at the Paris exhibition.
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Eyre Crowe (1824-1910) 