He exhibited at the Royal Academy and was commissioned by Charles Chadwyck-Healey to record the threatened architecture and streets of Victorian London.
[2] At the time of the 1871 census he was living at Manningham,[2] Yorkshire, but by 1881 he was at Oakley Crescent, Chelsea, London.
[3] At the time of the 1901 census he was living in Evandale Road, Lambeth, London.
His other subjects included coaching inns, manor houses, and the interiors of the City of London's livery halls.
[1] In 1961, Sir Edward Chadwyck-Healey (died 1979), the grandson of Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey, donated a collection of Crowther's work commissioned by his grandfather to the City of London's Guildhall Library where it is known as the Chadwyck Healey Collection.