Background
Joseph Archer Crowe son of Eyre Crowe, was born in London on the 25th of October 1828.
At an early age he showed considerable aptitude for painting.
Joseph Archer Crowe son of Eyre Crowe, was born in London on the 25th of October 1828.
At an early age he showed considerable aptitude for painting.
Joseph Archer Crowe entered the studio of Delaroche in Paris, where his father was correspondent of the Morning Chronicle.
During the Crimean War Joseph Archer Crowe was the correspondent of Egyptian lyre-kissarIGreek lyre or chelys Roman testudoItalian viola Violin The Welsh High Germ.
Chrota or ChretaSpanish viguela or vihuela de arcoFrench vielle or violeГthe Illustrated London News, and during the Austro-Italian War represented The Times in Vienna.
He was British consul- general in Leipzig from 1860 to 1872, and in Diisseldorf from 1872 to 1880, when he was appointed commercial attache in Berlin, being transferred in a like capacity to Paris in 1882.
During a sojourn in Italy, 1846-1847, he cemented a lifelong friendship with the Italian critic Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1820 - 1897), arid together they produced several historical works on art of classic importance, notably Early Flemish Painters (London, 1857); A New History of Painting in Italy from the Second to the Sixteenth Century (London, 1864 - 1871, 5 vols. )
In 1895 Crowe published Reminiscences of Thirty-Five Years of My Life.
He died at Schloss Gamburg in Bavaria on the 6th of September 1896.
Crowe and Cavalcaselle's great History of Painting was under revision by Crowe up to the time of his death, and then by S. A. Strong (d. 1904) and Langton Douglas
A reprint of the original edition, brought up to date by annotations by Edward Huttons, was published by Dent in 3 vols. in 1909.
Crowe married Asta von Barby (c. 1841-1908).
