Sheds and Old Houses on the Yare

c. 1803

Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	20 x 24 15/16 in. (50.8 x 63.3 cm)
Object Number	2007.8.64
Acquisition	Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status	Off View

Image Caption

John Crome, Sheds and Old Houses on the Yare, c. 1803, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.64

Select Bibliography

Castle Museum Art Galleries. Crome Centenary Exhibition. Norwich: Castle Museum Art Galleries. 04/1921. Arts Council of Great Britain. John Crome 1768-1821 Bicentenary. Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich, August 3 - September 29, 1968, Tate Gallery, London, October 17 - December 1, 1968. 1968. Baker, C. H. Collins. Crome. London: Methuen & Co.. 1921. . Crome Exhibit. Norwich. 1860. . Mackintosh Collection. [manuscript catalogue]. Clifford, Derek and Timothy Clifford. John Crome. London: Faber and Faber. 1968. Goldberg, Norman L. John Crome the Elder. 2 vols. Oxford: Phaidon Press. 1978. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.

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Provenance

James Stark, Norwich (d. 1859);¹ W. Wilde (possibly by 1860); possibly L. or C. F. Huth; sale, Christie’s, London, 30 June 1906, no. 119, as Building and Sheds on a River, sold to Gooden; Gooden (from 1906); Sir Leicester Harmsworth, Baronet (in 1921); [Tooth & Co., London, sold to Mackintosh, 1950]; Harold Vincent Mackintosh, Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax, Norfolk (1950–d. 1964); Constance Mackintosh, Viscountess Mackintosh of Halifax, his wife, by descent (1964–d. 1975); John Mackintosh, Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax, her son, by descent (from 1975); [Oscar & Peter Johnson, Ltd., London, sold to Manton, 6 May 1980]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1980–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–7, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007. 1. According to inscription on reverse.