EAST LAKE

Sir Charles Lock ( youngest son of George East lake of Plymouth, solicitor, who d. 1820 ). b. Plymouth 17 Nov. 1793; exhibited 51 pictures at R.A. and 18 at B.I. 1813–55; painted in Rome 1816–30, in London 1830–55; A.R.A Nov. 1827, R.A. 10 Dec. 1830, librarian 1842–44, pres. Nov. 1850 to death; F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1838; sec. to commi ion of the Fine Arts 3 Dec. 1841 to 1861; keeper of National gallery Nov. 1843 to Oct. 1847, director 1855 to death, when the trustees bought his library for £2,100; knighted at Windsor Castle 13 Nov. 1850; author of Materials for a history of oil painting 2 vols. 1847–69; History of the Gothic revival 1871 and other books. d. Pisa 24 Dec. 1865. bur. English cemetery, Florence 27 Dec., reinterred Kensal Green cemetery 18 Jany. 1866. Sir C. L. East lake’s Contributions to the literature of the fine arts, second series with a memoir by Lady East lake 1870; Sandby’s History of Royal Academy, ii , 225, 280–87 (1862); W. C. Monk house’s Masterpieces of English art (1869) 152–56; The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages , fourth series (1860), portrait ; I.L.N. xvii , 357 (1850), portrait , xxxvi , 448, 450 (1860), portrait .