#john crome

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"Boulevard des Italiens, Paris" by John Crome, 1815. Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 87.3 cm. Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery. English landscape painter and etcher 1768-1821.

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Landscape with Cottages, John Crome, 1790-1821

From the Victoria & Albert Museum

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John Chrome (attributed to), An Egyptian Poppy and a Water Mole, ca. 1812, oil on canvas, 74.9 x 61.6 cm, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven

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MWW Artwork of the Day (12/29/22) John Crome (British, 1768-1821) Blacksmith's Shop near Hingham, Norfolk (c. 1808) Oil on canvas, 154 x 121.9 cm. The Philadelphia Museum of Art (John Howard McFadden Collection)

Crome’s early masterpiece "The Blacksmith's Shop near Hingham" shows the tumbledown shack thrown up against the side of a thatched cottage used by the blacksmith for the villages of Hingham and Hardingham, each about twelve miles southwest of Norwich.  To the left, the smithy sharpens a tool at a grindstone; family members and perhaps assistants mill around the shop. The dense, full foliage of the trees, and the blue, silver-clouded sky indicate a scene in midsummer; the whole breathes an air of intense stillness on a warm afternoon in the deep country. In the foreground two ducks float on a pond. Crome used the motif of the shop in picturesque dilapidation set against a verdant landscape to create one whole and harmonious melding of shapes, tones, and textures.

For more of this artist's work, see this MWW gallery/album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2373166989455323&type=3

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Postwick Grove, Norwich by John Crome

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Landschaft, 1805-21 von John Crome Öl auf Leinwand, 1805 Calderdale Museums Service, West Yorkshire, UK

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A View on the Wensum, Norfolk John Crome; Date Unknown

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JOHN CROME 

On this day of 22nd December John Crome (22 December 1768 – 22 April 1821) was born in Norwich, England. 

He was a landscape artist of the Romantic era, one of the principal artists, and founding members of the Norwich School of painters.

After a period, working as an errand boy for a doctor (from the age of twelve), he was apprenticed to Francis Whisler, a house coach, and sign painter. At about this time he formed a friendship with Robert Ladbrooke, an apprentice printer, who also became a celebrated landscape painter. The pair shared a room and went on sketching trips in the fields and lanes around Norwich. They occasionally bought prints to copy.

In 1803 Crome and Robert Ladbrooke formed the Norwich Society of Artists, a group that also included Robert Dixon, Charles Hodgson, Daniel Coppin, James Stark, and George Vincent. Their first exhibition, in 1805, marked the start of the Norwich School of painters, the first art movement created outside London. Crome contributed twenty-two works to its first exhibition, held in 1805. He served as President of the Society several times and held the position at the time of his death.

He exhibited thirteen works at the Royal Academy. He visited Paris in 1814, and later exhibited views of Paris, Boulogne, and Ostend. Most of his subjects were of scenes in Norfolk.

Crome was a drawing master at Norwich School and taught painters like James Stark, and Edward Thomas Daniell. 

Crome worked in both watercolour and oil, his oil paintings numbering more than 300.

Between 1809 and 1813 he made a series of etchings. They were not published in his lifetime, although he issued a prospectus announcing his intention to do so.

His two main influences are considered to be Dutch 17th-century painting and the work of Wilson. Along with John Constable, Crome was one of the earliest English artists to represent identifiable species of trees, rather than generalised forms.