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Painting ID:: 22814
The Champion (mk22)
1824
Oil on canvas,122.5 x 174 cm
Birmingham,Birmingham Museums and Atr Gallery |
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Painting ID:: 27947
The Salutation to the Aged Friar
c 1840
oil on canvas 94.5 x 112.9 cm
(37 1/4 x 44 1/2 in)
Forbes Magazine Collection,New York (mk63) |
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Painting ID:: 68896
view of the forum of trajan rome
1821 oil on canvas 38.1x90.2cm
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Charles Lock Eastlake
English Painter, 1793-1865
English painter, museum director, collector and writer. Fourth son of an Admiralty lawyer at Plymouth, he was educated at local grammar schools and then, briefly, at Charterhouse, Surrey. Determined to become a painter, he began work in 1809 as Benjamin Robert Haydon's first pupil and as a student at the Royal Academy Schools in London. In 1815 he exhibited for the first time at the British Institution, visited Paris and studied the pictures in the Musee Napoleon. He achieved his first conspicuous success with a scene from contemporary history that he had himself witnessed, |
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