Crome, John, usually called Old Crome, a landscape-painter, born in Norwich, of poor parents; began as a house-painter and then a drawing-master; one of the founders of the Norwich Society of Artists; took his subjects from his native county, and treated them with fidelity to nature; his pictures have risen in value since his death (1768‒1821).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Cromarty * Crompton, Samuel