| Disgrifiad | During the year, he works on a number of pictures - sketching at the Temple, a portrait of W.B. Scott, The Foundling Hospital, a farmhouse at Denaire, a concertina player in Trafalgar Square, and the Twa Brigs of Ayr. In September his book With Thackeray in America is published, and he mentions a few reviews, including that by the Pall Mall Gazette (10 October): "This is the first bit of hearty praise I have got in the press. Friends are, on the contrary, kindly".
A newspaper cutting about elections to the Royal Academy is inserted at 5 May, and one about a painting sale at Christie's in which Crowe was very interested, at 24 July. On 13 July, he mentions that Eyre Crowe, his nephew, "has invented a Stove, wh. ventilates the room & wh. warms beautifully. He has taken out a Patent for it".
Also loosely inserted [later] are a letter from Eyre A. Crowe, son of Crowe's brother Joseph, to Dick [Richard Wynne], dated 10 July 1917, mentioning in relation to Eyre Crowe A.R.A., "the dear old man's parsimonious life and toiling labour", and also a copy of Supporter, the official publication of the Flint and Denbigh Hunt Supporters' Club, no. 4, December 1968. |