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 fourteen 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.R.A. in 1828 and R.A. in 1830; was appointed, in 1841, secretary to the royal commission for decorating the Houses of Parliament, in 1842 librarian of the Royal Academy, in 1843 keeper of the National Gallery, and in 1850 was elected president of the Royal Academy and knighted. From that time until his death he was chiefly engaged in selecting pictures to be bought by the government for the National Gallery. He published "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 Jerusalem (replica; original, 1841), Haidee (1831), Escape of the Carrara Family (replica, 1850; original, 1834), Lord Byron's Dream (1827), National Gallery, London; Una delivering the Red Cross Knight (1830); Greek Fugitives (1833); Arab selling Captives (1837); Gaston de 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
Beech Trees (1883); Marsh Lands, Meadow
Brook, Morning at Lakeside (1884); Indian
Summer, Autumn Days (1885).
EATON, JOSEPH O., born in 1829, died
at Yonkers, N. Y., in 1875. Genre and portrait
painter. An Associate of the National Academy
in New York, where his professional life
was spent; visited Europe in 1873. Ideal
works: Landscape—View on the Hudson
(1868); Moral Instruction (1869); Last Chapter,
Dawning Maternity (1871); Greek Water-Carrier
(1872); Lady Godiva (1874); Tender
Thoughts, John Hoey, New York. Portraits:
R. S. Gifford (1869); 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
exhibited after his death. Water-colours:
Vision of the Cross (1869); Little Nell and
her Grandfather (1871); Two Pets (1874).
EATON, WYATT, born at Philipsburg,
Canada, May 6, 1849. Portrait and figure
painter; pupil of the National Academy and
of J. O. Eaton in New York, later of Gérôme
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 Düsseldorf under Schirmer in 1857-61.
Studied nature in Germany, Italy, and
France, and settled in Düsseldorf. Works:
Mountainous Country (1862); View in Rhön
Mountains; Hessian Summer Landscape
(1864); View in Southern Tyrol; Ilse Valley
in the Hartz; Autumn Landscape in Teutoburg
Forest; Uklei Lake in Holstein (1880).—Müller,
151.
EBERHARD, KONRAD, born at Hindelang,
Algäu, Nov. 25, 1768, died in Munich,
March 12, 1859. History and portrait
