Mr. Eastlake exhibited his 'Hagar and Ishmael iu 1814 ; his sub sequent works have been comparatively few. In 1845 appeared ' Hackie,' one of the female heads be always paints so gracefully ; in 1S44 a 'Scene from Commis,' a study for a royal fresco; in 1840 'A Visit to the Nun;' ' An Italian Peasant Family—prisoners with Banditti' in 1848; ' Helena' in 1849; 'The Good Samaritan,' and ' The Escape of Fraucesco Novelle di Carrara, with Taddea d'Eate, his wife, from the Duke of Milan,' in 1850; ' Ippolita Torelli' in 1851; ' Ruth sleeping at the feet of Boaz' and Violante' in 1853; Irene' iu 1854, and 'Beatrice' in 1855. Mr. Esstlako has also exhibited a few portraits, one of which 'The Sisters' may be mentioned as almost unrivalled among modern female portraits for exquisite gracefulness and refinement of style.
In 1850 Mr. Eastlake was elected President of the Royal Academy, and at the same time he received the honour of knighthood. In 1855 ho was appointed to the newly-established post of Director of the National Gallery with a salary of 1000/. a year. This appointment, as well as his previous management as Keeper of the National Gallery, has been the subject of a series of attacks on Sir Charles, made with so much virulence and personality as to have despoiled them of their sting, and rendered them far moro hurtful to their utterers than to the object of their enmity. Sir Charles was in 1838 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society; in 1853 he received the degree of D.C.L. from the University of Oxford; and in 1855 he was created Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Sir Charles is not only one of the most able but also one of the most learned of living English painters, and he has made several valuable contributions to the literature of art. For the ' Penny
Cyclopedia' be wrote the articles 'Bassi-Rilievi' and 'Bologna, School of;' be has also written some excellent articles for the ' Quarterly Review ; ' and some elaborate papers on Fresco painting, &e, for the Reports of the Fine Arts Commission. Ilia separate publications consist of a translation of Oiithe's Farbonlehre,' 1 vol. 8vo, 1840, which he bas enriched with some valuable notes on the practice of paintlog and the vehicles employed by the great Venetian and Flemish painters—subjects lie has much more amply illustrated in his next work, 'Materials for a History of Oil-Painting,' 1 vol. 8vo, 1847. His scattered owls ha has collected under the title of 'Contributions to the Literature of the Fine Arts.' Sir Charles has also edited and anno tated a translation, said to be by Lady Eastlake, of 'Kugler's Hand book to the Italian Schools of Painting: A repetition of Eastlake's ?rand picture ' Christ Weeping over Jerusalem,' forms one of the chief features of the Vernon Gallery, in which collection are also his 'Escape of Francesco di Carrara,' and a ' Head of a Lady in Greek Costume.' These have all been engraved among the series of engravings from the Vernon Gallery in the ' Art Journal ; ' the 'Christ Weeping over Jerusalem' has also been admi rably engraved on a much larger scale by Mr. Cousin in mezzotint. 'The Pilgrims first coming in sight of Rome," Hagar and Ishmael,' and ' Christ Blessing Little Children,' have been engraved in line.