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Size | About 45 items |
Abstract | Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake was an English essayist and translator, who published "Five Great Painters" (1883) and other works. Her husband was Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (1793-1865), director of the National Gallery, 1855-1865. The collection contains frequent brief, personal letters, primarily 1867 and 1868, from Elizabeth Eastlake to Sir William Boxall concerning the interment of and monument to her husband; disposition of his library and private art collection, some of which went to the National Gallery; a handwritten guide to the National Gallery by Elizabeth Eastlake that an employee of Boxall's was transcribing; other writings by Lady Eastlake; and mutual friends and happenings in the art world, especially affairs at the National Gallery. |
Creator | Eastlake, Elizabeth, 1809-1893. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Rare Book Literary and Historical Papers. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, May 1996
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Revisions by: Nancy Kaiser, August 2020
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake was an English essayist and translator, who published "Five Great Painters" (1883) and other works. Her husband was Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (1793-1865), director of the National Gallery, 1855-1865.
Back to TopThe collection contains frequent brief, personal letters, primarily 1867 and 1868, from Elizabeth Eastlake to Sir William Boxall concerning the interment of and monument to her husband; disposition of his library and private art collection, some of which went to the National Gallery; a handwritten guide to the National Gallery by Elizabeth Eastlake that an employee of Boxall's was transcribing; other writings by Lady Eastlake; and mutual friends and happenings in the art world, especially affairs at the National Gallery.
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