Charles Lock Eastlake
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Sir Charles Lock Eastlake was a British painter, gallery director, collector and writer of the 19th century. After a period as keeper, he was the first director of the National Gallery. From 1850 to 1
Portrait of Sir Charles Eastlake (1865), by an unknown photographer, National Gallery, London
Charles Eastlake in a pencil sketch by John Partridge, 1825
Funerary monument, Kensal Green Cemetery, London
Brutus Exhorting the Romans to Revenge the Death of Lucretia, 1814
Elizabeth Eastlake
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Elizabeth, Lady Eastlake, born Elizabeth Rigby, was an English author, art critic and art historian who made regular contributions to the Quarterly Review. She is known for her writing and her signifi
Charles Lock Eastlake
…animadversion, a portrait erroneously ascribed to Holbein". In 1855 he returned as the first director, "with more extended powers". In 1849, he married Elizabeth Rigby, an art historian and translator of German art histories. Together they formed a formidable art history writing partnership. In 1845, he was elected…
Elizabeth Rigby, the future Lady Eastlake, photographed about 1847 by Hill & Adamson
Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, portrait sketch, 1831, Victoria & Albert Museum
SIR CHARLES EASTLAKE 1793 1865 Painter and First Director of the National Gallery lived here