Dictionary of Indian Biography/Crowe, Sir Joseph Archer
CROWE, SIR JOSEPH ARCHER (1825–1896)
Journalist, art-critic, and diplomatist : son of Eyre Evans Crowe : born Oct. 20, 1825 : artist of Illustrated London News in the Crimea : present at the engagements : appointed Superintendent of the "Sir Jamsetji Jijihbai's School of Design" at Bombay, 1857 : Editor, successively, of the Bombay Gazette and Bombay Standard, and correspondent of the Daily News and Times during the mutiny : Secretary of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce : left India owing to ill-health, 1859 : Times' correspondent in Italian war of 1859 : present at Solferino : appointed Consul- General for Saxony, 1860 : entered diplomatic service, 1880 : Commercial Attache for Europe, 1882–1 895 : joint author with Cavalcasella of Histories of Flemish and Italian Painters, Lives of Titian and Raphael : published a volume of Reminiscences : died Sep. 6, 1896.