Volume 25, Number 10 · June 15, 1978

The Ideal Director

By Francis Haskell
Sir Charles Eastlake and the Victorian Art World
by David Robertson

Princeton University Press, 464 pp., $50.00

At the end of his very fully documented biography of Sir Charles Eastlake, 'usually considered to have been the most distinguished director of the [London] National Gallery to date,' David Robertson sums up certain aspects of his career with a series of negatives and cautious qualifications:



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