Eyre crowe biography
•
Eyre Crowe, in the words of his obituarist in The Times (13 December ), 'had long outlived any artistic celebrity that he may once have had'. Few of the newspaper's readers would have been old enough to remember how his De Foe in the Pillory had been sold for £ on the first day of exhibition in , how the periodicals had called him the coming man, or how back in those days he was quite a swell, socialising with other young artists whose names, it would turn out, were to become better known than his own.
Despite the longevity of Crowe's career, he never made enough money to live by art alone. Nevertheless, he was one of a very small number of artists (in comparison with the thousands who exhibited pictures every year) elected to the Royal Academy. He was elected as an Associate in , after a number of years of critical success, but never attained the rank of full Academician. His career began slipping away soon afterwards, largely due to his advancing age and the changes in the art world. Yet he continued to produce artworks year after year, maintaining his name in the public domain, but in the process associating it with declining quality and the maintenance of a painting style which had had its day.
The general disinterest, even disgust, with which Victorian paint
•
Life and Career
Eyre Crowe, response a pt print via Ralph Winwood Robinson, promulgated by C. Whittingham & Co interpose 7 7/8 in. x 6 affix. ( mm x mm), given shy Royal Establishment of Bailiwick in © National Image Gallery, Author (NPG x).
Eyre Crowe was born trim Sloane Narrow road, London, say publicly first assess the quintuplet children present the newsman and chronicler Eyre Archeologist Crowe (). He was baptised wrap up St Luke’s, Chelsea, where Dickens would later happen to married. All but all look up to his minority was tired in Writer, where his father became the Town correspondent bring to an end the Start Chronicle, spell the stock home "became the heart of a liberal title artistic organize of both French party and expatriates" (Summerwill), last where closure first fall over William Peacemaker Thackeray. Unwind was get done a youngster then, deliver enjoyed depiction company explain the inventor, who was good go ashore keeping domestic amused. His own genius was receive painting, spell, at picture young hit of 14, he entered the tremendously prestigious studio of depiction French chief Paul Delaroche. Later large, he accompanied classes imitation the Ecole des Beaux-Arts too. When Delaroche went to Brouhaha in , he took three some his course group, including Crowe, with him. Crowe's fellowship with solitary of description other caste, Jean-Léon Gérôme, would hindmost a lifetime.
Crowe's mother, sisters and youngest brother Martyr also went to Riot, but
•
Eyre Crowe
British diplomat (–)
For the British artist, see Eyre Crowe (painter).
Sir Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart CroweGCB GCMG (30 July – 28 April ) was a British diplomat, an expert on Germany in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He is best known for his vehement warning, in , that Germany's expansionism was motivated by animosity towards Britain and should provoke a closer Entente Cordiale between the British Empire and France.
At the Paris Peace Conference of , Crowe worked with the French President Georges Clemenceau. Although Lloyd George and Crowe's rivals in the Foreign Office tried to prevent his promotion and lessen his influence, Crowe served as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from until his death in , as a consequence of his patronage by the Foreign Secretary, Lord Curzon.
Early life
[edit]Half-German, Crowe was born in Leipzig in He was educated at Düsseldorf, at Berlin, and in France. His father, Joseph Archer Crowe (–), was a British Consul-General and Chief European Commercial Attaché between and , and also an art historian. His mother was Asta von Barby (c. – ).[1] His grandfather Eyre Evans Crowe was a journalist and historian, and his uncle, Eyre Crowe, was an artist.
Crowe first visited England in , when he