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SIR JOSEPH ARCHER CROWE (1828-1896)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 514 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:JOSEPH See also:ARCHER See also:CROWE (1828-1896)  , See also:English consular See also:official and See also:art critic, son of See also:Eyre See also:Crowe, was See also:born in See also:London on the 25th of See also:October 1828 . At an See also:early See also:age he showed consider-able aptitude for See also:painting and entered the studio of See also:Delaroche in See also:Paris, where his See also:father was correspondent of the See also:Morning See also:Chronicle . During the See also:Crimean See also:War he was the correspondent ofthe Illustrated London See also:News, and during the Austro-See also:Italian War represented The Times in See also:Vienna . He was See also:British See also:consul-See also:general in See also:Leipzig from 186o to 1872, and in See also:Dusseldorf from 1872 to 188o, when he was appointed commercial attache in See also:Berlin, being transferred in a like capacity to Paris in 1882 . In 1883 he was secretary to the See also:Danube See also:Conference in London; in 1889 plenipotentiary at the See also:Samoa Conference in Berlin; and in 1890 British See also:envoy at the See also:Telegraph See also:Congress in Paris, in which See also:year he was made K.C.M.G . During a sojourn in See also:Italy, 1846-1847, he cemented a lifelong friendship with the Italian critic Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1820-1897), and together ::hey produced several See also:historical See also:works on art of classic importance, notably Early Flemish Painters (London, 1857); A New See also:History of Painting in Italy from the Second to the Sixteenth See also:Century (London, 1864-1871, 5 vols.) . In 1895 Crowe published Reminiscences of See also:Thirty-Five Years of My See also:Life . He died at Schloss Gamburg in See also:Bavaria on the 6th of See also:September 1896 . Crowe and Cavalcaselle's See also:great History of Painting was under revision by Crowe up to the See also:time of his See also:death, and then by S . A . Strong (d . 1904) and See also:Langton See also:Douglas, who in 1903 brought out vols. i. and ii. of See also:Murray's new six-See also:volume edition, the 3rd vol., edited by Langton Douglas, appearing in 1909 .

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original edition, brought up to date by annotations by See also:Edward Huttons, was published by Dent in 3 vols . M 1909 .

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