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See also: English painter, was See also: born on the 17th of See also: November 1793 at See also: Plymouth, where his See also: father, a See also: man of uncommon gifts but of indolent temperament, was See also: solicitor to the See also: admiralty and See also: judge advocate of the admiralty See also: court
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See also: Charles was educated (like
See also: Sir See also: Joshua See also: Reynolds) at the Plympton grammar-school, and in See also: London at the See also: Charterhouse
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Towards 1809, partly through the influence of his See also: fellow-Devonian See also: Haydon, of whom he became a pupil, he determined to be a painter; he also studied in the Royal See also: Academy school
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In 1813 he exhibited in the See also: British Institution his first picture, a See also: work of considerable See also: size, " Christ restoring See also: life to the Daughter of Jairus." In 1814 he was commissioned to copy some of the paintings collected by See also: Napoleon in the Louvre; he returned to See also: England in 1815, and practised portrait-See also: painting at Plymouth
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Here he saw Napoleon a See also: captive on the " See also: Bellerophon "; from a boat he made some sketches of the emperor, and he afterwards painted, from these sketches and from memory, a life-sized full-length portrait of him (with some of his See also: officers) which was pronounced a See also: good likeness; it belongs to the See also: marquess of Lansdowne
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In 1817 Eastlake went to See also: Italy; in 1819 to See also: Greece; in 1820 back to Italy, where he remained altogether fourteen years, chiefly in See also: Rome and in See also: Ferrara
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In 1827 he exhibited at the Royal Academy his picture of the Spartan Isidas, who (as narrated by Plutarch in the life of Agesilaus), rushing naked out of his See also: bath, performed prodigies of valour against the Theban See also: host
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This was the first work that attracted much See also: notice to the name of Eastlake, who in consequence obtained his election as A.R.A.; in 1830, when he returned to England, he was chosen R.A
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In 185o he succeeded See also: Shee as president of the Royal Academy, and was knighted
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See also: Prior to this, in 1841, he had been appointed secretary to the royal commission for decorating the Houses of Parliament, and he retained this See also: post until the commission was dissolved in 1862
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In 1843 he was made keeper of the See also: National Gallery, a post which he resigned in 1847 in consequence of an unfortunate See also: purchase that roused much animadversion, a portrait erroneously ascribed to See also: Holbein; in 1855, director of the same institution, with more extended See also: powers
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During his directorship he See also: purchased for the gallery 155 pictures, mostly of the See also: Italian See also: schools
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He became also a D.C.L. of See also: Oxford, F.R.S., a chevalier of the See also: Legion of Honour, and member of various See also: foreign See also: academies
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In 1849 he married See also: Miss See also: Elizabeth
See also: Rigby, who had already then become known as a writer (Letters from the Baltic, 1841; Livonian Tales, 1846; The Jewess, 1848) and as a contributor to the Quarterly Review
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Lady Eastlake (1809-1893) had for some years been interested in See also: art subjects, and after her See also: marriage she naturally devoted more See also: attention to them, translating Waagen's Treasures of Art in See also: Great Britain (1854-1857), and completing Mrs See also: Jameson's See also: History of our See also: Lord in See also: Works of Art
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In 1865 Sir Charles Eastlake See also: fell See also: ill at Milan; and he died at See also: Pisa on the 24th of See also: December in the same See also: year
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Lady Eastlake, who survived him for many years, continued to See also: play an active See also: part as a writer on art (Five Great Painters, 1883, &c.), and had a large circle of See also: friends among the most interesting men and See also: women of the See also: day
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In 188o she published a See also: volume of Letters from See also: France
describing events in See also: Paris during 1789), written by her father, See also: Edward Rigby (1747-1821), a distinguished Norwich See also: doctor who was known also for his See also: practical See also: interest in See also: agriculture, and who is said to have made known the flying shuttle to Norwich manufacturers
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As a painter, Sir Charles Eastlake was gentle, harmonious, diligent and correct; lacking fire of invention or of execution; eclectic, without being exactly imitative; influenced rather by a love of ideal See also: grace and beauty than by any marked bent of individual power or vigorous originality
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Among his See also: principal works (which were not numerous, 51 being the See also: total exhibited in the Academy) are: 1828, " Pilgrims arriving in sight of Rome " (repeated in 1835 and 1836, and perhaps on the whole his chef-d'oeuvre); 1829, " See also: Byron's Dream " (in the Tate Gallery); 1834, the " Escape of See also: Francesco di See also: Carrara " (a duplicate in the Tate Gallery); 1841, " Christ Lamenting over Jerusalem " (ditto) ; 1843, " Hagar and Ishmael "; 1845, " Comus "; 1849, " See also: Helena "; 1851, " Ippolita Torelli "; 1853, " Violante "; 1855, " See also: Beatrice." These See also: female heads, of a refined semi-ideal quality, with something of Venetian glow of tint, are the most satisfactory specimens of Eastlake's work to an artist's See also: eye
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He was an accomplished and judicious See also: scholar in matters of art, and published, in 184o, a See also: translation of Goethe's Theory of See also: Colours; in 1847 (his chief See also: literary work) Materials for a History of Oil-Painting, especially valuable as regards the Flemish school; in 1848, Contributions to the Literature of the See also: Fine Arts (a second series was edited by Lady Eastlake in 1870, and accompanied by a Memoir from her See also: pen); in 1851 and 1855, translated See also: editions of Kugler's History of the Italian School of Painting, and Handbook of Painting (new edition, by Lady Eastlake, 1874)
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