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Date
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Crowe's life
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Major paintings
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1824
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Crowe born on 3 October
at 141 Sloane Street, London
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1826
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Crowe family moves to
La Capelle, near Boulogne
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1827/8
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Crowe family moves to
Paris
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1839
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Enrols as pupil in Paul
Delaroche's atelier
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1843
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Travels to Rome with Delaroche.
Meets Jean-Léon Gérôme
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1844
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Returns to London
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1845
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Begins working for W M
Thackeray. Accepted as student in the Royal
Academy Schools
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1846
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Master Prynne searching Archbishop Laud's pockets in the Tower,
first RA exhibit
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1847
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Participates in competition
for decoration of Houses of Parliament
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1849
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Works with Thackeray on
Louis Marvy's Sketches
after English Landscape Painters
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1851-1852
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Becomes art critic on
the Daily News. Works with Thackeray
on Esmond.
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1852-1853
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Goes to America with Thackeray
as his secretary
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1853
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Mother dies in Paris
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1854
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A
Slave Sale in Charleston, South Carolina;
and After
the Sale: Slaves going South
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1856
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Returns to London
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Boswell's
Introduction to the Literary Club, sold
to art dealer Mr Gambart
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c.1858
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Joins the Hogarth Club
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1859
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Begins working as art
inspector for the Department of Science
and Art
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1861
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Joins the Reform Club
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Slaves
Waiting for Sale - Richmond, Virginia
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1862
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De
Foe in the Pillory, sold for £400 on
first day of exhibition
International Exhibition,
London: Pope's
Introduction to Dryden (1858) exhibited
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1863
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Founder member of the
United Arts Club
Produces cartoons for
mosaics to decorate South Court of South
Kensington Museum
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Brick
Court, Middle Temple, April 1774
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1864
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'Honorary member' of the
St John's Wood Clique. Photographed by David
Wilkie Wynfield
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Luther
Pasting his Theses on the Church Door of
Wittenburg
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1867
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Exhibits at the inaugural
exhibition of cabinet paintings in oil at
the Dudley Gallery
Appointed as an Art Referee
at the South Kensington Museum
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1868
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Father dies
Produces lunette for decoration
of Competition Gallery in South Kensington
Museum
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Mary
Stuart, February 8th 1586
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1869
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Shinglers
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1870-1871
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Gérôme stays with Crowe
in London during the siege of Paris
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Friends
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1872
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First recorded Royal Academy
election involving Crowe
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Tiff
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1874
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The
Dinner Hour, Wigan
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1875
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A
Sheep-Shearing Match; and The
French Savants in Egypt, 1798
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1876
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Elected Associate of the
Royal Academy (ARA)
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1877
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Sanctuary
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1881
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Begins work as examiner
of students' artwork at South Kensington
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'Sandwiches';
and Explosion
at the Cashmere Gate at Delhi, Sept. 14,
1857
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1885
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Participates in debate
in The Times over nudity in art
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1887
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Convicts
at Work, Portsmouth
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1888-1889
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Spends autumn and winter
in Aberdeen
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Nelson
Leaving England for the Last Time
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1891
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The
Founder of English Astronomy
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1893
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With Thackeray in America
published
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1894
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Most spring inspecting
trips ceased
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The
Brigs of Ayr
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1895
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Thomas
Carlyle Looking at the Duke of Buccleuch's
Miniatures
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1897
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Thackeray's Haunts
and Homes published
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Trial
for Bigamy
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1898
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James
II at La Hogue, May 1692
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1899
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Last sibling, Eugenie,
dies
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1900
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Last autumn inspecting
trip
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1907
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Last year of examining
work at South Kensington
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1908
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Mendelssohn
- last exhibit at RA
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1910
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Retired from the Royal
Academy
Died on 12 December. Buried
at Kensal Green cemetery on 15 December
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