Artist
Eyre Crowe
British, 1824–1910
Eyre Crowe was a British Impressionism artist. 7 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum. Eyre Crowe was born in Chelsea.
Mrs Eugenie Maria Wynne (Crowe)
Sir Christopher Wren (1623–1723) (design for a mosaic in the Victoria and Albert Museum)
Horses in a field with gypsies and a caravan
A sheep shearing match
William Hogarth (1697–1764) (design for a mosaic in the Victoria and Albert Museum)
A dead stork on the bank of a stream
Eyre Crowe, ARA (3 October 1824 – 12 December 1910) was an English painter and author who specialised in history painting and genre art. His work usually centered around the everyday life's of the poor urban working class during the industrial revolution. He was rather progressive for the time, deviating from the idealistic depictions of urban life popular among the public.
Instead he aimed for social realism in his pieces. The 1874 edition of The Art Journal "afraid of reality, and shrinking from scenes that less robust minds would consider vulgar." He died on the 12th of December 1910 from Heart failure following a hernia operation. He is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, London.
Works by Eyre Crowe
- Mrs Eugenie Maria Wynne (Crowe)
- Sir Christopher Wren (1623–1723) (design for a mosaic in the Victoria and Albert Museum)
- Horses in a field with gypsies and a caravan
- A sheep shearing match
- William Hogarth (1697–1764) (design for a mosaic in the Victoria and Albert Museum)
- A dead stork on the bank of a stream
Sculpture Gallery door-way at the Exposition Universelle, Paris
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