The New Student's Reference Work/Eastlake, Sir Charles Lock

East′lake, Sir Charles Lock, a celebrated English artist, president of the Royal Academy, was born at Plymouth in 1793, and studied in London and Paris.  lie lived for some time at Rome, where he painted several pictures which attracted attention in England.  In 1841 his great work, Christ Weeping over Jerusalem, was painted.  He was elected president of the Royal Academy, and was knighted in 1850. During a journey in search of pictures for the National Gallery, of which he was a director, he died at Pisa, Italy, in 1865.  Eastlake gained a high reputation as a writer on art.  Besides other works he published Materials for the History of Oil-Painting and a number of papers now published in Contributions to the Literature of the Fine Arts.  See Memoir by Lady Eastlake, prefixed to the second series of his Contributions.