. British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood. on our school ofwater-colour painters ; there are many whose works manifest the masterwhose guiding they followed ; while few have passed from us more admiredas an artist, and more loved and respected as a man, than the veteran DavidCox. Devonshire, rich in natural scenery, claims as its sons two Presidents ofthe Royal Academy, Reynolds and Eastlake; Haydon, too, as we have seen,was born in Plymouth, so that no less than three of the great artists treatedof in our present chapter first saw the light in that county. The fa
. British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood. on our school ofwater-colour painters ; there are many whose works manifest the masterwhose guiding they followed ; while few have passed from us more admiredas an artist, and more loved and respected as a man, than the veteran DavidCox. Devonshire, rich in natural scenery, claims as its sons two Presidents ofthe Royal Academy, Reynolds and Eastlake; Haydon, too, as we have seen,was born in Plymouth, so that no less than three of the great artists treatedof in our present chapter first saw the light in that county. The family of Sir Charles Lock Eastlake had long been settled inPlymouth and its vicinity. Whatever taste he may have evinced, whenyoung, for the Arts, it is clear that his friends did not propose to make apainter of him, for he was sent to Charterhouse School to receive his educa-tion. How long he continued there we know not, but doubtless a sufficienttime to acquire so much classical learning and other kinds of knowledge asproved of intimate service to him in after Pi CM H^^ o r^ H s o ^ w ^ o -^ 2 s ^ „s < c H a ^ 5 Pi ^ r E A S TL A K E. 35 It was one of those accidents, as we are apt to call certain circum-stances and events which sometimes determine a mans course of life, thatinduced Eastlake to become an artist. Haydon was staying in his nativetown, employed on his really fine picture of The Death of Dentatus;young Eastlake saw it, and was so impressed by the work that he at oncemade up his mind to be a painter. He accordingly came up to London andentered the schools of the Academy, where he studied for two or three yearsunder the direction of Fuseli ; at the expiration of this term he painted apicture of The Raising of Jairus Daughter: it was purchased by thelate Mr. Jeremiah Harman. At the request of Mr. Harman, his youngprotege went to Paris to copy in the Louvre, but the return of Napoleon fromElba compelled him to relinquish his occupation earlier than he inte
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