CHARLES LOCK EASTLAKE (1793--1865), son of the Solicitor to the Admiralty in that town, was born at Plymouth, and educated first in Plympton Grammar School, where Reynolds had studied, and afterwards at the Charterhouse, London. Choosing the profession of a painter, he was encouraged, doubtless, by his fellow-townsman, Haydon, who had just exhibited _Dentatus_. Eastlake became the pupil of that erratic master, and attended the Academy schools. In 1813, he exhibited at the British Institution a large and ambitious picture, _Christ raising the Daughter of the Ruler_. In the following year the young painter was sent by Mr. Harman to Paris, to copy some of the famous works collected by Napoleon in the Louvre. The Emperor's escape from Elba, and the consequent excitement in Europe, caused Eastlake to quit Paris, and he returned to Plymouth, where he practised successfully as a portrait painter. A portrait of Napoleon, which Eastlake enlarged from his sketch of the Emperor on board the _Bellerophon_ when bound for St. Helena, appeared in 1815. This picture now belongs to Lord Clinton. In the same year he exhibited _Brutus exhorting the Romans to avenge the Death of Lucretia_. In 1819 Eastlake visited Greece and Italy, and spent fourteen years abroad, chiefly at Ferrara and Rome. The picturesque dress of the Italian and Greek peasantry so fascinated him that for a long period he forsook history for small _genre_ works, of which brigands and peasants were the chief subjects. A large historical painting, _Mercury bringing the Golden Apple to Paris_, appeared in 1820. Seven years later, _The Spartan Isidas_, now in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, was exhibited at the Academy, and procured for the painter the Associateship. It illustrates the story told by Plutarch, in his "Life of Agesilaus," of the young warrior called suddenly in his bath to oppose the Thebans. Rushing forth naked with his sword and spear, he drove back the Thebans and escaped unhurt. In 1828, Eastlake produced _Italian Scene in the Anno Santo, Pilgrims arriving in sight of St. Peter's_, which he twice repeated. In 1829 _Lord Byron's Dream_, a poetic landscape (National Gallery), was exhibited, and Eastlake becoming an Academician, returned to England. Then followed _Greek Fugitives_, _Escape of the Carrara Family from the Duke of Milan_ (a repetition is in the National Gallery), _Haidee_ (National Gallery), _Gaston de Foix before the Battle of Ravenna_, _Christ blessing Little Children_, _Christ weeping over Jerusalem_ (a repetition is in the National Gallery), and _Hagar and Ishmael_. To his labours as a painter Eastlake added the duties of several important offices, and much valuable literary work. He was Secretary to the Royal Commission for Decorating the New Palace of Westminster, Librarian of the Royal Academy, and Keeper, and afterwards Director of the National Gallery. In 1850, he succeeded Sir Martin Shee as President of the Royal Academy, and was knighted.