biography
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Eastlake, Sir Charles Lock
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1793–1865)
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| biography:
| Historical painter, born in Plymouth, Devon, SW England, UK. He made his name with two full-length portraits of Napoleon sketched while a prisoner on HMS Bellerophon in Portsmouth harbour (1815). He produced many Italianate genre paintings, and became a director of the National Gallery from 1855. |
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