Artist

John Crome

Portrait of John Crome
Portrait of John Crome

English, 1768–1821

John Crome was an English Romanticism painter. 35 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum, most of them oil paintings. John Crome was born in Norwich.

John Crome, once known as Old Crome to distinguish him from his artist son John Berney Crome, was an English landscape painter of the Romantic era, one of the principal artists and founding members of the Norwich School of painters. He lived in the English city of Norwich for all his life. Most of his works are of Norfolk landscapes.

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