On the first Director of the National Gallery

August 4 2011

Picture: BBC

Here's a nifty slideshow about Sir Charles Eastlake, the first director of the National Gallery. It coincides with a new exhibition on Eastlake at the gallery, curated by Susanna Avery-Quash. She has just published Eastlake's travel diaries for the Walpole Society.

PS - doesn't London look nicer with cobbles?

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