Sir Charles Lock Eastlake PRA
Born 17 November 1793
Died 24 December 1865
Active: 1809 - 1865
Country of birth: England
Country of death: Italy
Painter, art administrator
Born in Plymouth. Died at Pisa on Christmas eve 1865. He studied under Benjamin Robert Haydon and lived for 14 years in Rome (1816-30). On his return to London, he held many prominent positions, including secretary of the Fine Arts Commission (1841), Keeper of the National Gallery (1843-47) and President of the Royal Academy (from 1850).
On 9 April 1849 Charles married Elizabeth Rigby (1809-93), journalist and writer on art. He was the uncle of Charles Locke Eastlake (1833-1906), architect, writer, keeper and secretary of the National Gallery (1878-98).
Wealth at death: £40,000 0s. 0d.
Probate date: 10 May 1866
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Attended Great Exhibition Dinner for Foreign Sculptors (London), 1851
Sources
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
David Robertson, ‘Eastlake, Sir Charles Lock (1793–1865)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8414, accessed 28 Oct 2010]
The Builder, Vol. IX, No. 432, 17 May 1851
17 May 1851
p. 312
Citing this record
'Sir Charles Lock Eastlake PRA', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1245859661, accessed 09 Jun 2023]
