John Crowther

John Crowther (1837 – c. 1902) was an English watercolour painter. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and was commissioned by Charles Chadwyck-Healey to record the threatened architecture and streets of Victorian London. Early life and family John Crowther was born in Pudsey, Yorkshire, England, in 1837. He married Eleanor and they had daughters Emily A.P. Crowther and Lizzy B. (Blanche) Crowther. At the time of the 1871 census he was living at Manningham, Yorkshire, but by 1881 he was at Oakley Crescent, Chelsea, London. At the time of the 1901 census he was living in Evandale Road, Lambeth, London. Career Crowther exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours from 1876 to the late 1890s. In 1879, he was commissioned by the barrister Charles Chadwyck-Healey (1845-1919), later Sir Charles, to record the buildings endangered by the expansion and modernisation of Victorian London. Over 15 years he produced over 440 watercolours and drawings of central and suburban London, including many of the Inns of Court, home to London's barristers. His other subjects included coaching inns, manor houses, and the interiors of the City of London's livery halls.