Twenty Stories. One Norwich. The City of Stories.
Marking twenty years of championing the city, VisitNorwich presents an ambitious year-long cultural celebration: Twenty Stories. One City. The City of Stories. Written by local guest authors our stories range from medieval rebels and mystics to pioneering reformers, artists, entrepreneurs and unsung heroes, these are the people who shaped Norwich – and whose legacy can still be discovered across the city today.
John Crome (1820 – 1878)
John Crome was a founding member of the Norwich School of Painters. His work is featured in the collections of public art galleries, including the Tate, the Royal Academy in London, and Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery.
He was part self-taught with support from the artist John Opie and the English portraitist William Beechey. Crome worked in both watercolour and oil, producing more than 300 oil paintings during his career. He was particularly influenced by Dutch 17th-century painting and Welsh landscape painter Richard Wilson, as well as John Constable.
Step Into The Story- a city you don’t just read about, you experience
Visit Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery to see works by Crome. The Castle holds the world’s largest collection of works by artists of the Norwich School of Painters, which was the first provincial art movement established in Britain.
Did you know you can also find Crome’s work exhibited at The Tate, and The Royal Academy in London, as well as in the collections of The Met in New York and with object records from the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich?
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