Sir Frederick Alexis Eaton
(1838-1913), Secretary of the Royal Academy, editor and writerSitter in 6 portraits
Frederick Eaton was a medievalist and the secretary and chronicler of the Royal Academy. He was educated at St. Alban's, Oxford, graduating in 1860. Eaton edited Murray's Handbooks on Egypt in 1870 and later one on South Italy. He was appointed secretary of the Royal Academy in 1873, where he was required to deal with the artists exhibiting and those who had been rejected from the annual exhibitions. In 1882, he translated the biography of Albrecht Dürer by Moriz Thausing.
Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888
by Henry Jamyn Brooks
oil on canvas, 1889
NPG 1833
Selecting Committee, Royal Academy, circa 1892
by Reginald Cleaver
pen and ink, circa 1892
NPG 4245
by Unknown photographer
albumen carte-de-visite, circa late 1860s
NPG x4960
by Unknown photographer
cabinet card, circa 1890s
NPG x14308
after Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Bt
aquatint photogravure, (1913)
NPG D36065
Key to Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888
after Henry Jamyn Brooks
photograph, 1919 or after
NPG D42236
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Jim Johns
06 November 2019, 00:15
He married Charlotte Caroline GREVILLE daughter of Southwell GREVILLE and his wife Jane TRONSON.