Charles Lock Eastlake 1793-1865

Mrs Charles H.Bellenden Ker 1835

Christ Blessing Little Children

Hagar and Ishmael

Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter, museum director, collector and writer. Fourth son of an Admiralty lawyer at Plymouth, he was educated at local grammar schools and then, briefly, at Charterhouse, Surrey. Determined to become a painter, he began work in 1809 as Benjamin Robert Haydon’s first pupil and as a student at the Royal Academy Schools in London. In 1815 he exhibited for the first time at the British Institution, visited Paris and studied the pictures in the Musée Napoléon.

Charles Lock Eastlake 1793-1865

Greek girl 1827

Hagar and Ishmael

Mrs Charles H. Bellenden Ker 1835

CHARLES LOCK EASTLAKE.