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When John Crome was buried in St. George's Church in Norwich in the spring of 1821 at the age of only 53, his friends and students were mourning the death of one of the most important landscape painters in English art history. As a talented and imaginative young man, Chrome had come to painting rather casually. At the age of twelve, he had first worked as a messenger for a doctor before he trained as a sign painter. His first "works of art" were inscriptions for cottages, pubs and colourful decorative panels for horse-drawn carriages. He made friends with Robert Landbrooke, an apprentice printer, who later became a recognized landscape painter. A common hobby soon developed. The two young men roamed the idyllic landscape of the surrounding county of Norfolk, sketching grasses, flowers and trees. Some of the works were so successful that Robert Landbrooke's boss bought the paintings to print them in larger editions.
John Chrome was a real autodidact, instead of studying art, he taught himself all the techniques. A great help was a colleague of Robert Landbrooke, who owned a large collection of prints of well-known paintings. John Chrome copied paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, the Dutchman Meindert Hobbema and other great painters. It was during this period of groping and trial and error that he met the London portrait painter William Beechey, who gave him important assistance. The talent of the up-and-coming painter Chrome was so great that he earned his living by teaching drawing to private pupils. At the age of 24 he was so successful with it that he could start a family. He married his wife Phoebe and in the course of time eight children grew up. Two of them, John Berney and William Henry, were later to become famous painters.
Crome and Ladbrooke were not only talented, but also had a vision. In the early 19th century, they jointly founded the Norwich Society of Artists. Their first exhibition in 1805 is considered an important date in English art history. It was the birth of the Norwich School of Painters, the first strong art movement to establish itself outside the metropolis of London. The Norwich School of Painters oriented itself towards the "Golden Age of the Netherlands". It took up the painting style of such great Dutch painters as Esaias van de Velde, Jacob van Ruisdael, or Aelbert Cuyp and interpreted this style in a new way.
Despite these European influences John Chrome remained a very down-to-earth contemporary. He travelled only occasionally to London, 120 miles away, and exhibited once at the Royal Academy there. Only once in his life did he travel to Paris. It was an impressive journey with numerous artistic inspirations. In the months after his return, he produced a series of paintings with Parisian scenes and views of the port cities of Boulogne and Ostend. Today, 200 years after his early death, his works have become immortal. His paintings fill the halls of major museums, they hang in the Tate Gallery and the Royal Academy in London, among others. A large part of his work can be admired in his home town, in the Norwich Castle Museum.
When John Crome was buried in St. George's Church in Norwich in the spring of 1821 at the age of only 53, his friends and students were mourning the death of one of the most important landscape painters in English art history. As a talented and imaginative young man, Chrome had come to painting rather casually. At the age of twelve, he had first worked as a messenger for a doctor before he trained as a sign painter. His first "works of art" were inscriptions for cottages, pubs and colourful decorative panels for horse-drawn carriages. He made friends with Robert Landbrooke, an apprentice printer, who later became a recognized landscape painter. A common hobby soon developed. The two young men roamed the idyllic landscape of the surrounding county of Norfolk, sketching grasses, flowers and trees. Some of the works were so successful that Robert Landbrooke's boss bought the paintings to print them in larger editions.
John Chrome was a real autodidact, instead of studying art, he taught himself all the techniques. A great help was a colleague of Robert Landbrooke, who owned a large collection of prints of well-known paintings. John Chrome copied paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, the Dutchman Meindert Hobbema and other great painters. It was during this period of groping and trial and error that he met the London portrait painter William Beechey, who gave him important assistance. The talent of the up-and-coming painter Chrome was so great that he earned his living by teaching drawing to private pupils. At the age of 24 he was so successful with it that he could start a family. He married his wife Phoebe and in the course of time eight children grew up. Two of them, John Berney and William Henry, were later to become famous painters.
Crome and Ladbrooke were not only talented, but also had a vision. In the early 19th century, they jointly founded the Norwich Society of Artists. Their first exhibition in 1805 is considered an important date in English art history. It was the birth of the Norwich School of Painters, the first strong art movement to establish itself outside the metropolis of London. The Norwich School of Painters oriented itself towards the "Golden Age of the Netherlands". It took up the painting style of such great Dutch painters as Esaias van de Velde, Jacob van Ruisdael, or Aelbert Cuyp and interpreted this style in a new way.
Despite these European influences John Chrome remained a very down-to-earth contemporary. He travelled only occasionally to London, 120 miles away, and exhibited once at the Royal Academy there. Only once in his life did he travel to Paris. It was an impressive journey with numerous artistic inspirations. In the months after his return, he produced a series of paintings with Parisian scenes and views of the port cities of Boulogne and Ostend. Today, 200 years after his early death, his works have become immortal. His paintings fill the halls of major museums, they hang in the Tate Gallery and the Royal Academy in London, among others. A large part of his work can be admired in his home town, in the Norwich Castle Museum.
.jpg "Norwich River, Afternoon, c.1812-19 by John Crome")
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.jpg "Landscape with Cottage by John Crome")
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.jpg "A Wooded Lane by John Crome")
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.jpg "The River Wensum, Norwich by John Crome")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315763).jpg "Watering Place, Heigham by John Crome")
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.jpg "Boys Bathing on the River Wensum, Norwich by John Crome")
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.jpg "At Bawburgh by John Crome")
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.jpg "View of Mousehold Heath, Near Norwich by John Crome")
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_c1818_(oil_o_-_(MeisterDrucke-1010240).jpg "Trees by a Brook (The Willow Tree, a Horseman and a Woman on a Road) by John Crome")
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.jpg "An Egyptian Poppy and a Water Mole by John Crome")
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.jpg "Sheds and Old Houses on the Yare, c.1803 by John Crome")
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.jpg "Landscape - Edge of a Wood by John Crome")
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.jpg "The Poringland Oak by John Crome")
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.jpg "The Edge of a Common, c.1815 by John Crome")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-898236).jpg "A River Scene with Boys Bathing by John Crome")
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.jpg "High Tor, Matlock, 1811 by John Crome")
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.jpg "The Blacksmith")
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.jpg "The Mill by John Crome")
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.jpg "An Egyptian Poppy and a Water Mole by John Crome")
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.jpg "Moonlight on the Yare by John Crome")
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.jpg "Back of the New Mills, c.1814-17 by John Crome")
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.jpg "Hautbois Common, Norfolk, probably ca. 1810 by John Crome")
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.jpg "Study of a Burdock by John Crome")
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.jpg "At Bawburgh, 1813 by John Crome")
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.jpg "The Edge of the Forest, with Farm Cart and Cattle by John Crome")
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.jpg "The Poringland Oak, c1818-1820 by John Crome")
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.jpg "Old Orford Church and Mill, Suffolk by John Crome")
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.jpg "On the Skirts of the Forest by John Crome")
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.jpg "View at Blofield, Near Norwich by John Crome")
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.jpg "Boys Bathing on the River Wensum, Norwich by John Crome")
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.jpg "The Yarmouth Water Frolic, c1821 by John Crome")
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.jpg "Landscape Scene in Norfolk by John Crome")
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.jpg "The River Wensum, Norwich by John Crome")
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.jpg "Wood Scene by John Crome")
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.jpg "Mousehold Heath by John Crome")
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.jpg "Tree Trunks and Lane by John Crome")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1457712).jpg "The Lime Kiln, c.1805/06 by John Crome")
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.jpg "Tree on a Mound by John Crome")
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.jpg "Yarmouth Jetty by John Crome")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-898934).jpg "A Barge with a Wounded Soldier by John Crome")
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.jpg "Mousehold Heath, Norwich, c.1810-11 by John Crome")
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.jpg "View near Norwich by John Crome")
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.jpg "Entrance to Earlham Park, Near Norwich by John Crome")
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.jpg "Woodland Landscape near Norwich by John Crome")
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.jpg "A Thistle by John Crome")
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.jpg "View at Blofield, Near Norwich by John Crome")
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.jpg "At Trowse, Published by J. & W. Freeman by John Crome")
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.jpg "View of Mousehold Heath, Near Norwich by John Crome")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1127741).jpg "View at Hellesdon by John Crome")
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.jpg "View on Mousehold Heath, Near Norwich, c1812 by John Crome")
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.jpg "At Colney by John Crome")
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.jpg "Trees by a Brook by John Crome")
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.jpg "Front of the New Mills, 1813 by John Crome")
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.jpg "Sailing Boats and Barges on a Dutch Estuary by John Crome")
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.jpg "View on the Maas by John Crome")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-899019).jpg "A River Scene, Possibly at Norwich by John Crome")
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.jpg "Cartwheels Near a Tree by John Crome")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-997353).jpg "Wherries on the Yare by John Crome")
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.jpg "Yarmouth Old Pier by John Crome")
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.jpg "Road Scene, Hethersett by John Crome")
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.jpg "Moonlight on the Yare by John Crome")
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.jpg "Back of the Mills by John Crome")
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.jpg "Road Scene, Trowse Hall, 1813 by John Crome")
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.jpg "A Barge with a Wounded Soldier by John Crome")
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.jpg "Yarmouth Jetty by John Crome")
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.jpg "A House Among Trees by John Crome")
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.jpg "At Colney by John Crome")
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.jpg "At Bawburgh by John Crome")
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.jpg "Mousehold Heath by John Crome")
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.jpg "Riverscene, pub. by J. & W. Freeman, 1821 by John Crome")
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.jpg "Front of the New Mills by John Crome")
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.jpg "Road with a Farmhouse on the Right by John Crome")
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.jpg "A Thistle by John Crome")
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.jpg "Two Buildings Among Trees by John Crome")
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.jpg "Back of the New Mills, Norwich by John Crome")
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.jpg "Near Horsham by John Crome")
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.jpg "Back of the Mills by John Crome")
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.jpg "A Barge with a Wounded Soldier by John Crome")
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.jpg "At Colney, pub. by J. & W. Freeman by John Crome")
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.jpg "At Marlingford by John Crome")
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.jpg "Yarmouth Jetty by John Crome")
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.jpg "Woodland Landscape near Norwich by John Crome")
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.jpg "Yarmouth Jetty by John Crome")
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.jpg "Yarmouth Beach by John Crome")
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.jpg "Front of The New Mills, pub. by J. & W. Freeman in 1821 by John Crome")
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.jpg "Road Scene, Heathersett by John Crome")
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.jpg "Yarmouth Pier by John Crome")
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.jpg "Study of Trees, Nature in Britain by John Crome")
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.jpg "Boys Bathing on the River Wensum, Norwich by John Crome")
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.jpg "Boys Bathing on the River Wensum, Norwich by John Crome")
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.jpg "A Thistle by John Crome")
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.jpg "Yarmouth Jetty by John Crome")
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.jpg "An Egyptian Poppy and a Water Mole by John Crome")
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.jpg "Woodland Landscape near Norwich by John Crome")
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.jpg "The River Wensum, Norwich by John Crome")
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.jpg "A Barge with a Wounded Soldier by John Crome")
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.jpg "Yarmouth Beach, looking North - Morning by John Crome")
.jpg "The Edge of the Forest by John Crome")
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.jpg "Landscape, c. 1798 by John Crome")