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A Passion for Landscape: Rediscovering John Crome includes some fascinating works which were probably devised as lessons for his pupils. Giorgia has been working on the exhibition for four years and said Crome remains an enigma. He did not sign his work, left no diaries and barely a handful of letters, and instead of seeking fame and success in London, remained in Norwich. From here he launched Britain’s first art society outside the capital, the Norwich School of Artists. Today it is internationally renowned as the Norwich School of Painting and includes artists John Sell Cotman, Joseph Stannard and Crome’s artist son John Berney Crome.