EASTLAKE, SIR CHARLES LOCK Eng lish painter, was born on Nov. 17, 1793, at Plymouth. Charles was educated (like Sir Joshua Reynolds) at the Plympton grammar school, and in London at the Charterhouse. Towards 1809, partly through the influence of his fellow Devonian, Haydon, he deter mined to be a painter ; he also studied in the Royal Academy school. In 1813 he exhibited in the British Institution his first pic ture, "Christ restoring life to the Daughter of Jairus." In 1827 he was elected Associate of the Royal Academy and R.A. in 183o; and in 185o succeeded Shee as president of the Royal Academy, and was knighted. In 1841 he had been appointed secretary to the royal commission for decorating the Houses of Parliament. In 1843 he was made keeper of the National Gallery, but resigned in 1847; in 1855 he became director.
In 1849 he married Miss Elizabeth Rigby, the author of Letters front the Baltic (1841), and other works. Lady Eastlake (1809 93) translated Waagen's Treasures of Art in Great Britain and completed Mrs. Jameson's History of our Lord in Works of Art. Eastlake died at Pisa on Dec. 24, 1865.
Sir Charles Eastlake was an accomplished scholar in matters of art, and published, in 184o, a translation of Goethe's Theory of Colours; in 1847 (his chief literary work) Materials for a His tory of Oil Painting, especially valuable as regards the Flemish school; in 1848, Contributions to the Literature of the Fine Arts (a second series was edited by Lady Eastlake in 187o, and accom panied by a Memoir from her pen) ; in 1851 and 1855, translated editions of Kugler's History of the Italian School of Painting, and Handbook of Painting (new ed., by Lady Eastlake, 1874)• See W. Cosmo Monkhouse, Pictures by Sir Charles Eastlake, with biographical and critical Sketch