The Erechtheum, Athens

The Devon-born Eastlake enjoyed great success with his early work Napoleon on the Bellerophon, depicting Napoleon on board a British warship after the Waterloo campaign. This allowed him to travel across Continental Europe, particularly in Greece and then Italy where he settled for a number of years.^[2] This work was inspired by his visit to Athens but painted when he had settled in Rome. Eastlake subsequently returned to Britain and in 1850 was elected President of the Royal Academy. The work was commissioned by the philhellenist Earl of Guilford. Today the painting is in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut.^[3]

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• Tsigakou, Fani-Maria. The Discovery of Greece: Travellers and Painters of the Romantic Era. Thames and Hudson, 1981.

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