that roused much animadversion, a portrait erroneously ascribed to Holbein". In 1855 he returned as the first Director, "with more extended powers". In 1849 he married Elizabeth Rigby, an art historian and translator of German art histories, forming a formidable art history writing partnership. In 1845, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician. From 1850 to 1865, he was the second president of the Birmingham Society of Artists. Elected President of the Royal Academy and knighted in 1850, he became a notable figure in the British art establishment, being appointed the first President of the Photographic Society in 1853 and, in 1855, the first Director of the National Gallery. His directorship was marred by the signal failure of the National Gallery to fulfill the terms of the bequest of J.M.W.Turner, his erstwhile friend. Cambridge University awarded him an honorary degree in 1864. Legacy Eastlake died in Pisa, Italy, on Christmas Eve 1865, and is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, London. His will provided for the Gallery to purchase his own collection of paintings. Lady Eastlake sold her husband's art history book collection to the Gallery's library. Gallery Publications Materials for a History of Oil Painting (1847). A second volume was published posthumously in 1869. Contributions to the Literature of the Fine Arts (1848). See also On Vision and Colors References Attribution ; Endnotes: Memoir by Lady Eastlake prefixed to the second series of Contributions to the Literature of the Fine Arts Pictures by Sir Charles Eastlake Haydon's Autobiography Catalogue of the National Gallery (Wornum), and books mentioned in the text. External links , an engraving of the painting in Friendship's Offering, 1827, with the poem The Brigand Leader and his Wife by Felicia Hemans. 1793 births 1865 deaths Artists from Plymouth, Devon People educated at Charterhouse School English curators 19th-century English painters English male painters English art historians Directors of the National Gallery, London English translators Royal Academicians Knights Bachelor Fellows of the Royal Society Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery Members and Associates of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists 19th-century British translators 19th-century male artists Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 19th-century British businesspeople Writers from Plymouth, Devon Committee members of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge