Art for the Nation: Sir Charles Eastlake at the National Gallery, London

This exhibition illuminates the life and work of the Gallery's first director, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (1793-1865), a man described by one contemporary as 'the Alpha and Omega' of the Victorian art world.
Find out more in this introduction with Susanna Avery-Quash, Research Fellow in the History of Collecting at the National Gallery.

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Three cheers to C Eastlake!

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