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EATON Elba obliged him to return to Plymouth, where he saw the deposed Emperor on the Bellerophon, and from memory and some hasty sketches painted him surrounded by his officers, a picture, now belonging to Lord Lansdowne, which brought him into notice. In 1817 he went to Italy, and in 1819 to Greece, returning to Rome, where, and at Ferrara chiefly, he spent in all four- teen years. He sent, in 1823, to the Royal Academy three views of Rome, but his first work which won special praise was The Spartan Isidas (1827), now the property of the Duke of Devonshire. He became an A.K.A. in 1828 and R.A. in 1830 ; was ap- pointed, in 1841, secretary to the royal coin- mission for decorating the Houses of Parlia- ment, in 1842 librarian of the Royal Academy, in 1843 keeper of the National Gallery, and in 1850 was elected president of the Eoyal Academy and knighted. From that time until his death he was chiefly engaged in selecting pictures to be bought by the gov- ernment for the National Gallery. He pub- lished " Materials for a History of Painting " (1847), and "The Schools of Painting in Italy," translated from Kugler (1851); and edited "Kugler's Handbook of Painting" (1855). Works : Christ lamenting over Je- rusalem (replica ; original, 1841), Haidee (1831), Escape of the Carrara Family (rep- lica, 1850 ; original, 1834), Lord Byron's Dream (1827), National Gallery, London ; Una delivering the Red Cross Knight (1830); Greek Fugitives (1833); Arab selling Cap- tives (1837); Gaston do Foix before Battle of Ravenna (1838); Christ blessing Little Children (1840); Hagar and Ishmael (1843). Redgrave ; Art Journal (1855), 277 ; Cat. Nat. Gal.; Life by Lady Eastlake (London); Quarterly Rev., April, 1870 ; Sandby, ii. 280; Kunst-Chronik, i. 3 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, iv. 93. EATON, CHARLES HARRY, born at Akron, O., Dec. 13, 1850. Landscape painter, self-taught. Studio in New York. Works : At Elyria Ohio (1881); Near Avon New York, Apples (1882); Autumn Study of Beecli Trees (1883); Marsh Lands, Meadow ' Brook, Morning at Lakeside (1884); Indian Summer, Autumn Days (1885). EATON, JOSEPH O., born in 1829, died atYonkers,N.Y.,in 1875. Genre and portrait painter. An Associate of the National Acad- emy in New York, where his professional life was spent ; visited Europe in 1873. Ideal works : Landscape View on the Hudson (1868); Moral Instruction (18G9); Last Chap- ter.Dawning Maternity (1871); Greek Water- Carrier (1872); Lady Godiva (1874); Tender Thoughts, John Hoey, New York. Portraits: R. S. Gifford (18G9) ; E. J. Kuntze (belonging to National Academy, New York); Rev. G. H. Hepworth (1870). The painter's own portrait (belonging to the National Academy), and Looking through the Kaleidoscope, were I exhibited after his death. Water-colours : Vision of the Cross (18G9); Little Nell and her Grandfather (1871); Two Pets (1874). EATON, W T YATT, born at Philipsburg, Canada, May G, 1849. Portrait and figure painter ; pupil of the National Academy and [ of J. O. Eaton in New York, later of Ge- I rume in Paris. In 1872 he studied and ' sketched in England and France. Studio in New York. Works : Farmer's Boy (1870); Reverie (1875); Harvesters at Rest (1876); Boy Whittling, G. A. Drummond, Baltimore; Portrait of William Cullen Bryant (1878); do. of Miss Ella M. M. (1879); Grandmother and Child (1880) ; Portrait (Salon, 1884). Sheldon, 169 ; Mag. of Art (1884), 496. EBEL, FRITZ, born at Lauterbach, Hesse, in 1835. Landscape painter ; was a chemist, but took up painting in Darmstadt in 1856, and in Diisseldorf under Schirmer in 1857- 61. Studied nature in Germany, Italy, and France, and settled in Dtisseldorf. Works : Mountainous Country (1862); View in Rhon Mountains ; Hessian Summer Landscape (1864); View in Southern Tyrol; Use Val- ley in the Hartz ; Autumn Landscape in Teu- toburg Forest; Uklei Lake in Holstein (1880). Miiller, 151. EBERHARD, KONRAD, born at Hinde- lang, Algiiu, Nov. 25, 1768, died in Munich, March 12, 1859. History and portrait