biography
| name: |
Crome, John
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known as Old Crome
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1768–1821)
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| biography:
| Landscape painter, chief of the Norwich School, born in Norwich, Norfolk, E England, UK. He was apprenticed to a house painter (1783), then became a drawing master, and founded the Norwich Society of Artists (1803). His subjects derived from the scenery of Norfolk, such as ‘Poringland Oak’ and ‘Mousehold Heath’ (Tate, London). |
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