Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake
With Facsimiles of her Drawings and a Portrait

This two-volume 1895 work is compiled from the journals and letters of writer and art critic Elizabeth Eastlake (1809–93).

Elizabeth Eastlake (Author), Charles Eastlake Smith (Edited by)

9781108074278, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 April 2014

364 pages, 9 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.46 kg

Later known as Lady Eastlake, the writer Elizabeth Rigby (1809–93) travelled widely in her early years, and subsequently moved in the highest literary and artistic circles. After an illness in 1827 she was taken abroad to recover, and her encounters with European art led to her writing career. In 1849, she married the painter Charles Eastlake, who became the director of the National Gallery and president of the Royal Academy. Continuing to write, especially for the Quarterly Magazine, on literature and art, she spent part of each year touring galleries and private collections across Europe. This engaging two-volume work of 1895, edited by her nephew and full of shrewd judgements on art and on people, is compiled from her journals and letters. Volume 2, covering the period from 1854 to her death, concludes with a reminiscence by one of her closest friends, the illustrator and author Eleanor Vere Boyle.

19. 1854
20. 1854–5
21. 1855
22. 1856–8
23. 1859
24. 1860
25. 1861–3
26. 1864
27. 1865–70
28. 1871–5
29. 1876–8
30. 1879–85
31. 1886–91
32. 1892–3
Index.

Subject Areas: The arts: general issues [AB]