Sir Charles Eastlake and the Victorian Art World
by: Robertson, David

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 468 pages, b&w illustrations, some color. Illustrated from photographs, paintings, and other works of art, portraits, and plans. Eastlake (1793-1865), an artist, scholar, collector, and public administrator, served as president of the Royal Academy and the first Director of the National Gallery. Robertson covers the artists, writers, scholars, and statesmen of Eastlake's Victorian art world, as well as exhibitions and sales, critical controversies and art-historical writing. With appendices which include checklists of Eastlake's own paintings and private collection, a record of the National Gallery's acquisitions of 1824-1865, and much more. Includes bibliographical references and index. Rubbing, edge wear to dust jacket; closed tears to bottom of spine and rear top right corner. Else a clean, tight copy.