Charles Lock Eastlake belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Charles Lock Eastlake as English painter, gallery director, collector and writer (1793-1865).
Charles Lock Eastlake was born at Plymouth in 1793. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at Charterhouse School.
Academies set the rules in this period - what counted as a serious subject, and who was allowed to train.
He worked as linguist, art historian and painter.
Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
Recognition followed: Knight Bachelor.
That the work was made in United Kingdom shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Charles Lock Eastlake died in 1865, aged 72. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Knight Bachelor
