Robert Crone (artist)

Robert Crone (c. 1718 - 1779) was an Irish landscape painter.

Life
A Landscape and Figures (1770) by Crone

Crone was born in Dublin around 1718. He initially trained at the Dublin Society's drawing school under Robert West on George's Lane,[1] winning prizes in 1748 and 1750.[2] He then went on to become a pupil of the portrait painters, Robert Hunter and Philip Hussey.[1] Crone moved away from portraiture and commenced painting landscapes, in which he achieved considerable success.[3] Hussey was a relative, and he sent Crone to Italy around 1750, where he studied under Richard Wilson in Rome. While there he an associate of the Irish artists James Forrester and Solomon Delane.[1] James Martin noted in his journal that Crone "has chiefly studyed Claude Lorrain and I believe is reckoned to have a good Deal of his Manner".[4]

Landscape Crone undated

Crone remained in Rome until 1767. The next year he was in London, where he showed two drawings at the Society of Arts.[4] From 1772 until 1778 he exhibited annually at the Royal Academy.[3] Although much hindered by frequent epileptic fits, and he has also been described as small in stature and "deformed".[1] His first exhibited pictures were two landscapes called Morning and Evening.[3] The only work he exhibited in Dublin was with the Irish Society of Artists in 1770 with Landscape and Figures.[2] He exhibited drawings, some of which were finished after Richard Wilson's style in black and white chalk on a bluish-grey paper. His landscapes are now very scarce and much sought after; a few examples are in the Royal Collection.[3]

He died in London in 1779[3] after a seizure.[1]

References
  1. Lunney, Linde; Bohan, Rob (2009). "Crone, Robert". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  2. Strickland, Walter G. (1913). "Robert Crone, Landscape Painter". A Dictionary of Irish Artists. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  3. Bryan 1886–89
  4. Figgis, Nicola (1987). "Irish Landscapists in Rome 1750-1780". Irish Arts Review (1984-1987). 4 (4): 60–65. ISSN 0790-178X. JSTOR 20492036.

Sources
  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Crone, Robert". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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