![]() On his death-bed he is said to have gasped, "Oh Hobbema, my dear Hobbema, how I have loved you". He died at his house in Gildengate, Norwich, on 22 April 1821, and was buried in St. He also taught privately, his pupils including members of the influential Gurney family, whom he stayed with whilst in the Lake District in 1802. Several members of the Norwich School art movement were educated at the school and were taught by him, including Stark and Edward Thomas Daniell. Ĭrome was drawing master at Norwich School for many years. Most of his subjects were of scenes in Norfolk. He visited Paris in 1814, following the defeat of Napoleon, and later exhibited views of Paris, Boulogne, and Ostend. He exhibited 13 works at the Royal Academy between 18. With the exception of the times when he made short visits to London, he had little or no communication with the great artists of his own time. He served as President of the Society several times and held the position at the time of his death. Crome contributed 22 works to its first exhibition, held in 1805. Their first exhibition was in 1805 it marked the start of the Norwich School of painters, the first art movement created outside London. ![]() In 1803 Crome and Ladbrooke formed the Norwich Society of Artists, a group that also included Robert Dixon, Charles Hodgson, Daniel Coppin, James Stark and George Vincent. They produced two daughters and six sons, two of whom, John Berney Crome and William Henry Crome became landscape painters. In October 1792 Crome married Phoebe Berney. Crome received further instruction and encouragement from the artist John Opie, and the English portraitist William Beechey, whose house in London he frequently visited. Crome had access to Harvey's art collection, which allowed him to develop his skills by copying the works of Thomas Gainsborough and Meindert Hobbema. They occasionally bought prints to copy.Ĭrome and Ladbrooke sold some of their work to a local printseller, Smith and Jaggars, and it was probably through the print-seller that Crome met Thomas Harvey of Old Catton, who helped him set to up as a drawing teacher. They shared a room and went on sketching trips in the fields and lanes around Norwich. At about this time he formed a friendship with Robert Ladbrooke, then an apprentice printer. After a period working as an errand boy for a doctor (from the age of 12), he was apprenticed to Francis Whisler, a house, coach and sign painter. He was the son of John Crome, a weaver (who is also described as either an innkeeper or a lodger at a Norwich inn), and his wife Elizabeth. John Crome was born on 22 December 1768 in Norwich, and baptised on 25 December at St George's Church, Tombland, Norwich. ![]() Most of his works are of Norfolk landscapes.Ĭrome's work is in the collections of public art galleries, including the Tate Gallery and the Royal Academy in London, and the Castle Museum in Norwich. He lived in the English city of Norwich for all his life. John Crome (22 December 1768 – 22 April 1821), once known as Old Crome to distinguish him from his artist son John Berney Crome, was an English landscape painter of the Romantic era, one of the principal artists and founding members of the Norwich School of painters. 3 daughters and 4 other sons survived infancy.
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