The mouse that roared
Apr 28, 2021
2 minutes
John Crome (1768–1821)
‘Crome was an excellent teacher, which was his luck and his reputation’s misfortune’
IN 1863, 42 years after his death, , now in Tate Britain, was the first of John Crome’s works to be bought by a national collection. It caused something of a sensation, because although his reputation had been growing, it was still as a regional master rather than as one of
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