Jack Easel (1833 - 1906)

RA Collection: People and Organisations

Pseudonym of Charles Locke Eastlake (1833-1906), Museum Curator and journalist, the nephew of Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (1793–1865), president of the Royal Academy and director of the National Gallery. Eastlake later became a freelance journalist, contributing to a number of leading publications, including the Nineteenth Century, the Cornhill Magazine, Building News, and the London Review. Between 1859 and 1862, as ‘Jack Easel or Our Roving Correspondent,’ he contributed twenty-eight articles to Punch on a variety of artistic and social topics at home and abroad.