Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (1793-1865), Painter; President of the Royal Academy and Director of the National Gallery; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery

President of the RA; studied in RA schools, and under Haydon; visited Italy and painted Italian subjects; secretary of Fine Arts Commission; president of RA, 1850; director of National Gallery, 1855; probably the most influential art historian and art administrator of the period.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.