Robert Crone

Robert Crone (c. 1718 - 1779) was an Irish landscape painter.

Life

Crone was born in Dublin around 1718. He initially trained at the Dublin Society's drawing school under Robert West on George's Lane, winning prizes in 1748 and 1750. He then went on to become a pupil of the portrait painters, Robert Hunter and Philip Hussey.

Crone remained in Rome until 1767. The next year he was in London, where he showed two drawings at the Society of Arts. The only work he exhibited in Dublin was with the Irish Society of Artists in 1770 with Landscape and Figures. He exhibited drawings, some of which were finished after Richard Wilson's style in black and white chalk on a bluish-grey paper. His landscapes are now very scarce and much sought after; a few examples are in the Royal Collection.

He died in London in 1779 after a seizure.