Charles Lock Eastlake

1793–1865 · Romanticism

Sir Charles Lock Eastlake was a British painter, gallery director, collector and writer of the 19th century. After a period as keeper, he was the first director of the National Gallery. From 1850 to 1865 he served as President of the Royal Academy, succeeding Martin Archer Shee in the role.

28 paintings

• Brutus Exhorting the Romans to Revenge the Death of Lucretia (1814)
• Hagar and Ishmael (1830)
• Contemplation (1836)
• Christ Lamenting over Jerusalem
• Cypresses at L’Ariccia, Italy
• Near Rome
• Coliseum
• A View at Girgenti in Sicily with the Temple of Concord and Juno (1818)
• An antique rural scene (1827)
• Pilgrims Arriving in Sight of Rome (1827)
• The Erechtheum, Athens, with Figures in the Foreground (1821)
• A View of the Church of S. Sabina and the Pyramid of Cestius, Rome (1825)
• A View of Trajan's Forum, Rome (1821)
• The Good Samaritan (1850)
• The Sisters (1844)
• A Group of Angels (1844)
• Zia Theresa: The visit to the nun (1844)
• The Colosseum from the Esquiline (1822)
• The Colosseum from the Campo Vaccino (1822)
• Cypress trees at the Villa d'Este (1817)
• Napoleon Bonaparte on Board the 'Bellerophon' in Plymouth Sound (1815)
• Hagar offering Water to her Son, Ishmael, in the Desert (1842)
• The Celian Hill from the Palatine (1823)
• The Champion (1824)
• Mrs Charles H. Bellenden Ker (1835)
• Christ Lamenting over Jerusalem (1846)
• Haidée, a Greek Girl (1827)
• Lord Byron’s ‘Dream’ (1827)