John Crome, English, 1768-1821
Title: A Heath Scene: Sun after Storm
Date: 1818
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
70 x 89 cm
Credit Line: Purchased, 1943
Object Number: NGI.1110
ProvenanceLord Northwick, 1859; Revd B. Gibbon, Cheltenham; purchased, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London, 1943.
Exhibition HistoryExhibition of the Norwich Society, 1819
Painting in England & Ireland 1700-1900, Dundalk, 1970
Painting in England & Ireland 1700-1900, Dundalk, 1970
Label TextJohn Crome was a member of the Norwich school of landscape artists. He painted Romantic views of the countryside where he lived. In this scene, dark storm clouds give way to clear skies and sunshine. Changing weather effects were of great interest to Crome. He believed in observing and sketching nature closely, at first-hand. Crome’s approach to landscape painting was greatly influenced by the work of John Constable and by seventeenth-century Dutch artists such as Meindert Hobbema.