Editing John Crome (section)

==External links==
{{commons category|John Crome}}
{{DNB poster|Crome, John (1768-1821)|John Crome}}
*  [https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NNSF-5L3 John Crome] in "England Births and Christenings, 1538–1975", [[FamilySearch]]. {{registration required}}
*{{Art UK bio|wikidata=Q3503915 |name=John Crome |nocount=true}}
*[https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG24067 Works by (or relating to) John Crome] at the [[British Museum]]
*[http://norfolkmuseumscollections.org/#!/collections/search?q=john%2Bcrome&mediaType=image Works by (or relating to) John Crome] in the Norfolk Museums Collections
*[https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_field=Creator&q=john+crome Works by (or relating to) John Crome] at the [[Yale Center for British Art]]

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<!-- *{{cite book |last= Goldberg|first= Norman L.|date= 1978|title= John Crome the Elder, volume 1|url=|location= Oxford |publisher= Phaidon|page= 17|isbn= 0714818216|author-link= }}--><!-- In your letter you wished me to give you my opinion of your picture. I should have liked it better if you had made it more of a whole, that is, the Trees stronger, the sky running from them in shadow up to the opposite corner, That would have produced what I think it wanted, and have made it much less a too picture effect. I think I hear you say this fellow is very vain and that nothing is right that does not suit his eye. But be assured what I have said I thought on first sight, it strengthened me in that opinion every time I looked at it. Honesty my Boy. So much for what it wanted. But how pleased I was to see so much improvement in the figures. So unlike our Norwich School – I might say they are good. Your boat was too small for them (you see I am at it again). But to return the water pleases me, and I think it would not want much alteration in the sky. I cannot let your sky go off without some observation. I think the character of your clouds too affected that is, too much of some of our Mordern [sic] Painters who mistake some of our great masters because they sometimes put in some of those round characters of clouds; they must do the same. But if you look at any of their skys [sic] they either assist in the composition or make some figure in the picture (nay sometimes play the first fiddle). I have seen this in Wovermans [sic] and many others I could mention. Breath must be attended to, if you paint but a muscle give it breath. Your doing the same in the sky making parts broad and of a good shape that they may come in with your composition forming one grand plan of light and shade. This must always please a good eye, and keep the attention of the spectator and give delight to everyone. Trifles in nature must be overlooked that we may have our feelings raised by seeing the whole picture at a glance, and not knowing how or why we are so charmed. -->

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