Downloads
Find out more about Charles Eastlake with these free downloads originally produced for the 2012 exhibition ‘In Pursuit of Art: Charles Eastlake's Journey from Plymouth to the National Gallery’ exhibition at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, now The Box.
Eastlake's life and interests
Download the mp3 files below to hear about different areas of Eastlake's life and interests:
Download the transcripts for the Art Bites tours that were run by the Young Explainers. These also provide additional information to the mp3's.
Young Explainers programme
The Young Explainers developed a public interpretation programme of events and activities in response to the 'In Pursuit of Art Charles Eastlake's journey from Plymouth to the National Gallery' exhibition. You can download some of the resources they produced above, or visit the Young Explainers page to see their proposal, along with a report by Dr Susanna Avery-Quash, Research Curator in the History of Display & Collecting at the National Gallery.
Links
Here are some links to other web pages about Sir Charles Eastlake:
- The National Gallery's biography of Sir Charles Eastlake
- The Victorian Web's biography of Sir Charles Eastlake
- Encyclopedia Britannica's online biography of Sir Charles Eastlake
- BBC slideshow from The National Gallery's 2011 'Art for the Nation' exhibition
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| Sir Charles Eastlake, Contemplation, c.1836 © Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter |