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Sir Charles Lock Eastlake PRA (17 November – 24 December ) was a British painter, gallery director, collector and writer of the 19th century....
Charles Locke Eastlake (11 March – 20 November ) was a British architect and furniture designer.
Charles Eastlake
English architect and designer
For his uncle, the nineteenth-century English museum director and painter, see Charles Lock Eastlake.
Charles Locke Eastlake (11 March – 20 November ) was a British architect and furniture designer.
His uncle, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake PRA (born in ), was a Keeper of the National Gallery, from to , and from its first director, which results in some confusion between the two men, whose names are distinguished only by the presence or absence of an "e" in their middle names.
The style of furniture named after him, Eastlake style, flourished during the later half of the nineteenth century. The Eastlake movement, a style of architecture, with old English and Gothic elements, is also named for him.
Life
Eastlake was born March 11, , in Plymouth. His formal education included studies at the Westminster School and the Royal Academy where he discovered an interest in architecture, along with the talent for drawing and painting