See also:SIR See also:CHARLES See also:LOCK See also:EASTLAKE (1793-1865)
, 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 See also: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 See also:grammar-school, and in See also:London at the See also:Charterhouse
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Towards 1809, partly through the See also:influence of his See also:fellow-Devonian See also:Haydon, of whom he became a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
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, " See also: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 See also:boat he made some sketches of the See also: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 See also:Lansdowne
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In 1817 See also: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 See also: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 See also: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 See also: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 See also:commission for decorating the Houses of See also: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 See also: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
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, F.R.S., a See also:chevalier of the See also:Legion of See also: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 See also:Review
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See also: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 See also:Waagen's Treasures of Art in See also:Great See also: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 See also: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 See also: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 See also:shuttle to Norwich manufacturers
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As a painter, Sir Charles Eastlake was See also:gentle, harmonious, diligent and correct; lacking See also:fire of invention or of See also:execution; eclectic, without being exactly imitative; influenced rather by a love of ideal See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace and beauty than by any marked See also:bent of individual See also: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 See also:Dream " (in the See also:Tate Gallery); 1834, the " See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
Escape of See also:Francesco di See also:Carrara " (a duplicate in the Tate Gallery); 1841, " Christ Lamenting over See also:Jerusalem " (See also:ditto) ; 1843, " Hagar and See also:Ishmael "; 1845, " See also: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 See also:Goethe's Theory of See also:Colours; in 1847 (his See also: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 See also: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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