Eastlake, Elizabeth (Rigby), c 1843-1847

From a pencil inscription on the page: "Lady Eastlake". From a typed note pasted on the page: "Eastlake, Sir Charles Lock (1793-1865), president of the Royal Academy; entered Charterhouse School, 1808; studied art under Benjamin Robert Haydon [q. v.] and in the Royal Academy schools; returning from studying in the Louvre masterpieces (1815) to Plymouth, was enabled to visit Italy by the proceeds of a portrait of Napoleon I, devoting himself to landscape-painting at Rome; visited Athens, Malta, and Sicily, on a sketching tour; exhibited 'banditti' pictures at the British Institution, 1823; exhibited at Royal Academy after 1827; praised by Haydon for the 'Titianesque' simplicity of his 'Champion'; twice refused the chair of fine arts at the London University, 1833 and 1836; secretary of the Fine Arts Commission; commissioner for the exhibition of 1851; president of the Royal Academy, 1850-65; director of the National Gallery, 1855; died at Pisa; F.R.S. and honorary D.C.L. Oxford; published 'Materials for the History of Oil-painting,' some books of art criticism, and a translation of Goethe's 'Theory of Colours,' 1840. [xvi. 330]".