8 May 2009
Brick Court, Middle Temple, April 1774 / Goldsmith's Mourners was sold at auction by Bonham's of London on 22 April 2009. The hammer price was £6,500.I have received details of four sketches all relating to the Reform Club (of which Eyre Crowe was a member from 1861 until his death). The sketches are in private ownership. They are '"Chicago" Smith', and 'Yardley' (sketches of Reform Club members), 'Ballot for new members of the Reform Club', and 'Reform Club member balancing on the two back legs of a chair'.
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12 November 2008
An image of Bluecoat Boys returning from their Holidays (1879) has been added to the website, courtesy of the current owner of the picture. He tells me that the painting was purchased by his grandfather, probably in Montreal, and has remained in the family ever since.
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25 October 2008
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has added details of a previously unknown Eyre Crowe sketch to their online catalogue. Delivery Entrance of Palais des Beaux Arts at the Exposition Universelle of 1855 (1855) is part of their prints and drawings collection.
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6 October 2008
The sketch 'Window Cleaners', signed and dated by Eyre Crowe on 23 March 2008, has been offered for sale on Ebay. The purchaser of the sketch suggests to me that it actually depicts two artists up ladders, working on heads as part of an unfinished large mural or canvas
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8 September 2008
The undated sketch entitled 'Louis XI at Sainte Chapelle, Paris' was sold on ebay in August 2008. The purchaser of the sketch has confirmed that it does depict Louis XI watching mass in the chapel of Sainte Chapelle, and has suggested a date of the 1850s or even perhaps as early as the 1840s. See here for more detailed notes.
An undated 'Portrait study of a girl wearing a hat' was auctioned by George Kidner Auctioneers, of Lymington, Hampshire, on 24 April 2008. The study, in pastel, and measuring 12 x 7 cm, sold for £28. It had been exhibited at the J.S. Maas and Co. Ltd gallery in 1974. This item was previously unknown to me.
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7 August 2008
I have been made aware of the existence of an undated sketch entitled by Eyre Crowe, 'Louis XI at sainte Chapelle, Paris'. It seems in fact to depict Louis IX of France bringing the relic of Christ's Crown of Thorns to the royal chapel of Sainte Chapelle in 1248. No finished painting on this theme is known to exist.
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10 March 2008
A picture previously unknown to the author of the website - Soldiers Meeting (1870) - has sold for £4,000 at Sotheby's in London.
Brief details of two other pictures have also been added to the table of sketches, undated and uncompleted works - a pencil drawing of the artist Jean-François Millet (1866), and an undated oil painting entitled 'A Good Whiff', sold by Bonhams in 2007.
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21 January 2008
The owner of an Eyre Crowe painting previously unknown to the author of the website - 'American Scene' (1855) - has kindly given permission for an image and description to be added to the website.
Details of The Slave Auction (1862) have also been added.
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15 October 2007
Brief details of two sketches, Sketch for Pope's Introduction to Dryden (1857), and In the Reform Club, Pall Mall (c.1901) have been added to the table of Sketches and Undated Artworks.
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25 July 2007
An image of The Signal Mortar (1889) has been added, with the kind permission of the painting's American owner.
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7 July 2007
A sketch of 'Harlequin and Columbine' (n.d.) has appeared for sale on Ebay. The same seller, a dealer from Houston, Texas, has also offered a number of the same sketches auctioned on Ebay in 2005 and 2006.
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3 April 2007
School at the Aitre, St Maclou, Rouen (1883) was sold at auction in Hamburg, Germany, for 3,840 euros on 31 March.-----
8 March 2007
Dean Swift at St James's Coffee House, 1710 (1860) is now for sale at Martin Macleish Fine Paintings in Mayfair, London.-----
22 October 2006
Dean Swift at St James's Coffee House, 1710 (1860) was offered for auction at Christie's on 24 May 2006. Details and an image have been added to the notes relating to the painting.Review from The Times of Boswell's Introduction to the Literary Club (1860) added to the notes relating to the painting.
Auction details of Dean Swift Looking at a Lock of Stella’s Hair (1864) have been added to the notes relating to the painting.
Auction details of The French Savants in Egypt, 1798 (1875) have been added to the notes relating to the painting.
Auction details of Howard Succouring the Galley Slaves at Venice, A.D. 1778 (1872) have been added to the notes relating to the painting.
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7 April 2006
An image of Forfeits (1880) has been added to the notes relating to the painting.
A group of 23 sketches by Eyre Crowe has been donated to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Details are available on their online catalogue (search for 'Crowe'), and have been added to the Sketches and Undated Artworks page on this site..
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2 April 2006
The following sketches have appeared for sale on Ebay:
- Architectural Column (1897)
- Duc de Guise and others (n.d.)
- Furniture (n.d.)
- Ducks (n.d.)
- Bird, Salisbury Museum (1889)
- Pall Mall (1886)
- Window (n.d.)
- Johnsonian Club (n.d.)
- Schopine (1887)
- Shingling Pipe, Stourbridge (1869)
An image of Boswell's Introduction to the Literary Club (1856) has been added to the notes relating to the painting.
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15 March 2006
The following sketches have appeared for sale on Ebay:
- Newlyn (1888)
- Cove, Kincardinshire (1889)
Last chance to see Slaves Waiting for Sale – Richmond, Virginia (1861) in the 'Black Victorians: Black People in British Art 1800-1900' exhibition at Birmingham Museum !! The exhibition closes on 2 April 2006.
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24 February 2006
The following sketches have appeared for sale on Ebay:
- Dial on centre of Auld Brig of Ayr (1892.)
- Stone Bench (1872)
- Strand (1883)
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30 January 2006
The following sketches have appeared for sale on Ebay:
- May Day Mummers (n.d.)
- Plas Madoc (n.d.)
- Dunnottar Churchyard (1865)
- Paint and Potteries (n.d.)
- Mrs Piozzi (n.d.)
- Madame Millet (1897)
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7 January 2006
Slaves Waiting for Sale – Richmond, Virginia (1861) features in the 'Black Victorians: Black People in British Art 1800-1900' exhibition at Birmingham Museum from 28 January to 2 April 2006. The exhibition has previously (1 October 2005 to 8 January 2006) been at Manchester City Art Gallery.The following sketches have appeared for sale on Ebay:
- Sketches from Prague (1865)
- Man with Sandwich Board Advertisement (1880)
- Dundee (1888)
- Grasshopper (1889)
- Smith (1894)
- Sketch of Two Women and a Third Figure (n.d.)
- The Queen at Work (n.d.)
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4 December 2005
A sketch of a small stone statue of St Denis (1896) has appeared for sale on Ebay.
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14 November 2005
Darning day: Red Maids' School, Bristol (1876), is owned by Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums. An image and some details are available on their website.-----
7 November 2005
I have changed my organisation of the lists of Crowe's paintings. Instead of dividing between dated and undated works, regardless of medium, they are now divided between List of Paintings and Watercolours (representing his major exhibited works) and Sketches and Undated Artworks (all other items). This was in response to a flurry of very rough, but sometimes dated sketches coming onto the sale market through Ebay.
The following sketches have appeared for sale on Ebay:
- Cab Accident, St James's Square (1889)
- Rude's Model Head (1891)
- Woman Working (n.d.)
- Man Working (n.d.)
- Sir Robert [-], knight of the House of Minto (n.d.)
- 'Her Ladyship', better described as Elizabethan Woman (n.d.)
- Plumed Bird (n.d.)
- Albatross (1894)
- The Artist (n.d.)
- Woman with Hat (1877)
- 'Bovine', or Cows (n.d.)
- Figures from Clarendon's Rebellion (n.d.)
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24 October 2005 'Sandwiches' (1881) was sold at auction at Gorringe's in Lewes, East Sussex, on 20 October 2005, for £2,500.----- 10 October 2005 The Poultry Yard (1900) was sold at auction at Dreweatt Neate's salerooms at Donnington Priory, Newbury, Berkshire, on 21 September 2005.A colour image of Nelson Leaving England for the Last Time (1888) is now available on the website of the Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service. ----- 2 October 2005 The following sketches have appeared for sale on Ebay.com:
Brief details available on the Dated and Exhibited Works page. ----- 12 September 2005 Link to image of Luther Pasting his Theses on the Church Door of Wittenburg (1864) on the Bob Jones University Museum and Art Gallery website added.----- 31 July 2005 The Poultry Yard (1900) was offered for auction at Christie's in South Kensington, London, on 9 March 2005.----- 19 April 2005 The following sketches have appeared for sale on Ebay.co.uk:
Brief details available on the Dated and Exhibited Works page. A sketch entitled Vegetable Market at Frankfurt (1843) has been offered for sale by the auctioneers Cheffins, of Cambridge. This is the earliest known work by Eyre Crowe. ----- 8 March 2005 This website went live in March 2005, and is a revamped version of a website which has existed since 2002. |
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