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Creator:
Edward John Poynter, 1836–1919
Title:

Eliza Eastlake (née Bailey) [2024, YCBA]

Former Title(s):

Eliza Eastlake [2008, YCBA]

Portrait of a lady [1865, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]

Date:
1864
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 1/8 x 13 inches (43.5 x 33 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Signed and dated, green paint, center right: "EJP|1864" (monogrammed)

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1984.20.1
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
buttons (fasteners) | collar | embroidery | gown | leg-of-mutton sleeves | piping (trimming) | portrait | profile (figure) | woman
Associated People:
Eastlake, Eliza (née Bailey, died 1911)
Access:
Not on view
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1246
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In 1856, Eliza Bailey (d. 1911) married Charles Eastlake (1836–1906), nephew of Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, the first director of the National Gallery and then president of the Royal Academy. The younger Eastlake trained as an architect but became better known as a design reformer, particularly for his immensely popular Hints on Household Taste (1868), one of the most influential Victorian publications on home decoration and a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic. Eastlake and Edward John Poynter likely first met in the 1840s when they were students at Westminster School. The circumstances surrounding the creation of this portrait of Eliza Eastlake are unclear. It has been suggested that it may have been the picture exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1865 as Portrait of a Lady, along with Poynter’s first great success, Faithful unto Death (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool).

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 180-181, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Roy C. Strong, The British portrait, 1660-1960, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1991, pp. 344, 345, pl. 343, ND1314 B743 1991 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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