SIR

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• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

JOSEPH

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• ARCHER, WILLIAM (1856— )

ARCHER

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• CROWE, EYRE EVANS (1799-1868)
• SIR JOSEPH ARCHER CROWE (1828-1896)

CROWE (1828-1896)  , English consular official and art critic, son of Eyre Crowe, was born in London on the 25th of October 1828 . At an early age he showed consider-able aptitude for painting and entered the studio of Delaroche in Paris, where his father was correspondent of the Morning Chronicle . During the Crimean War he was the correspondent ofthe Illustrated London News, and during the Austro-Italian War represented The Times in Vienna . He was British consul-general in Leipzig from 186o to 1872, and in Dusseldorf from 1872 to 188o, when he was appointed commercial attache in Berlin, being transferred in a like capacity to Paris in 1882 . In 1883 he was secretary to the Danube Conference in London; in 1889 plenipotentiary at the Samoa Conference in Berlin; and in 1890 British envoy at the Telegraph Congress in Paris, in which year he was made K.C.M.G . During a sojourn in Italy, 1846-1847, he cemented a lifelong friendship with the Italian critic Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1820-1897), and together ::hey 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, who in 1903 brought out vols. i. and ii. of Murray's new six-volume edition, the 3rd vol., edited by Langton Douglas, appearing in 1909 .

A reprint of the

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