Eyre Crowe (painter)
Eyre Crowe was a British painter, principally of historical art and genre scenes, but with an interest in social realism.He was born in London, and grew up in France. He was the eldest son of the journalist Eyre Evans Crowe and brother of the journalist, diplomat and art historian Joseph Archer Crowe, whose son Eyre Crowe became an important diplomat. He was a pupil of William Darley and later of Paul Delaroche in Paris.Career
He traveled in the United States as amanuensis to Thackeray between 1852 and 1853. He published With Thackeray in America and Thackeray's Haunts and Homes.
He exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy in London between 1846 and 1908. In 1876 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy.Death
Crowe died in 1910.
