Early life Eyre Crowe was born on the 3rd of October 1824 in London. He and his family moved to France in 1826 in search of work opportunities where his father got a job working for the
Morning Chronicle. In 1851 as his art career failed to take off Crowe turned to writing. He was hired on by his father, who was then the Editor of the
Daily News, as an art critic. Shortly after, He was formally hired by Thackeray as a secretary and accompanied him on his trip to America in 1852, returning to Europe (Paris) in 1853. He later went on to publish a book about this journey in 1893 called
With Thackeray in America. After returning from America, Crowe was re-inspired to pursue art. His first series of works focused on then conditions of
slavery which he had been exposed to in his time in America. By 1855 he had exhibited paintings in the Suffolk Street Gallery, Royal Academy and two in the
Royal Scottish Academy. In 1856 after moving back to London, Crowe's Art career finally got off the ground. Starting in 1857 Crowe had at least one of his works exhibited in the Royal Academy for the next 52 years. From 1859-1900 to supplement his art career Crowe worked part-time as an itinerant Inspector of government art schools for the Department of Science and Art at
South Kensington Museum(now called the Victoria and Albert Museum). == Significant works ==