Charles Eastlake
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Charles Locke Eastlake (11 March 1836 – 20 November 1906) was a British
His uncle, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake PRA (born in 1793), was a Keeper of the National Gallery, from 1843 to 1847, and from 1855 its first director, which results in some confusion between the two men, whose names are distinguished only by the presence or absence of an "e" in their middle names.
The style of furniture named after him,
Life
Eastlake was born March 11, 1836, in
Although he had the qualifications of an architect, Eastlake did not practice as one. In the years 1855 and 1856 he put forward several architectural designs for a number of projects, including a design for the
In 1868 he published Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and other Details, which was very influential in Britain, and later in the United States, where the book was published in 1872.[5] From 1866 to 1877 he was secretary to the Royal Institute of British Architects, and from 1878 to 1898 he was Keeper of the National Gallery, London.[6]
He died, aged 70, at Leinster Square, Bayswater, and was buried at Kensal Green.
Artistic recognition
A bust of Eastlake by John Gibson is held in the National Portrait Gallery, London.[7]
See also
- Humewood Castle
- Stick-Eastlake
Notes
- ISBN 0-486-25046-6.
- ^ OCLC 12669458.
- ^ Eastlake, Charles L. (1970). A History of the Gothic Revival (Victorian Library ed.). Leicester University Press.
- ^ a b c Crook, J. Mordaunt (1970). Introduction : Eastlake's Career : A History of Gothic Revival (Victorian Library ed.). Leicester University Press.
- ISSN 0084-0416.
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- ^ Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.173
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Eastlake, Charles Locke (DNB12)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Bibliography
- A History of the Gothic Revival: an Attempt to Show How the Taste for Mediæval Architecture, which Lingered in England during the Two Last Centuries Has since Been Encouraged and Developed. Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co., London 1872;
- Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details. Edited by Charles C. Perkins. Publisher: J. R. Osgood, Boston 1874
- Notes on the Principal Pictures in the Brera Gallery at Milan. Publisher: Longmans and Co., London 1883;
- Notes on the Principal Pictures in the Louvre. Publisher: Longmans and Co., London 1883; 1883
- Notes on the Principal Pictures in the Old Pinakothek at Munich. Publisher: Longmans & Co, London 1884;
- Notes on the Principal Pictures in the Accademia in Venice, 1888
- Art for the Nation: Sir Charles Eastlake at the National Gallery. Exhibition at the National Gallery 27 July – 30 October 2011