CROWE, EYRE EVANS (1799-1868), English journalist and historian, was born about the year 1799. He commenced his work as a writer for the London newspaper press in connexion with the _Morning Chronicle_, and he afterwards became a leading contributor to the _Examiner_ and the _Daily News_. Of the latter journal he was principal editor for some time previous to his death. The department he specially cultivated was that of continental history and foreign politics. He published _Lives of Foreign Statesmen_ (1830), _The Greek and the Turk_ (1853), and _Reigns of Louis XVIII. and Charles X._ (1854). These were followed by his most important work, the _History of France_ (5 vols., 1858-1868). It was founded upon original sources, in order to consult which the author resided for a considerable time in Paris. He died in London on the 25th of February 1868.
CROWE, SIR JOSEPH ARCHER (1828-1896), English consular official and art critic, son of Eyre Crowe, was born in London on the 25th of October 1828. At an early age he showed considerable aptitude for painting and entered the studio of Delaroche in Paris, where his father was correspondent of the _Morning Chronicle_. During the Crimean War he was the correspondent of the _Illustrated London News_, and during the Austro-Italian War represented _The Times_ in Vienna. He was British consul-general in Leipzig from 1860 to 1872, and in Düsseldorf from 1872 to 1880, when he was appointed commercial attaché in Berlin, being transferred in a like capacity to Paris in 1882. In 1883 he was secretary to the Danube Conference in London; in 1889 plenipotentiary at the Samoa Conference in Berlin; and in 1890 British envoy at the Telegraph Congress in Paris, in which year he was made K.C.M.G. During a sojourn in Italy, 1846-1847, he cemented a lifelong friendship with the Italian critic Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1820-1897), and together they produced several historical works on art of classic importance, notably _Early Flemish Painters_ (London, 1857); _A New History of Painting in Italy from the Second to the Sixteenth Century_ (London, 1864-1871, 5 vols.). In 1895 Crowe published _Reminiscences of Thirty-Five Years of My Life_. He died at Schloss Gamburg in Bavaria on the 6th of September 1896.