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Sir Charles Lock Eastlake

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Sir Charles Lock Eastlake

by John Partridge
pencil, 1825
9 1/2 in. x 7 1/4 in. (241 mm x 184 mm)
Purchased, 1955
Primary Collection
NPG 3944(22)

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  • Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (1793-1865), Painter; President of the Royal Academy and Director of the National Gallery; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Sitter in 15 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits.

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  • John Partridge (1789-1872), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 43 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.

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As one of the first painters to arrive in Italy after the Continent reopened in 1815, Charles Eastlake came to dominate the British colony of artists in Rome. Most days, he would spend dangerously long hours sketching the campagna and its people in the sun, and was consequently nicknamed Carlo the Salamander by his artist-friends. Given that Eastlake would later become President of the Royal Academy in 1850 and the first Director of the new National Gallery in 1855, his leadership capacity is also seen early in his career in Italy when he was the driving force behind the establishment of the British academy in Rome.

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Strikes, contract breaking and worker intimidation prompt the passing of a new Anti-Trade Union Combination Act to the dismay of economist John McCulloch, MP Joseph Hume and radical Francis Place who had worked for the repeal of the previous year.
Catholic Relief Bill is rejected by the House of Lords.

Art and science

Construction of Thames Tunnel begins under the direction of Marc Isambard Brunel.
Stockton to Darlington Railway, the world's first passenger system, opens.
William Hazlitt publishes The Spirit of the Age; twenty-five pen-portraits of his contemporaries in the world of literature, philosophy and politics.

International

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premieres in London.
John Quincy Adams is elected President of the United States.

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