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Rigby's initials 'ER' can be seen lower-right, with the date of the sitting: 'April 17 1831'.<br><br><b>People</b><br>Elizabeth Rigby was the daughter of a Norwich doctor.  She was taught drawing and watercolour by the local Norwich artist John Sell Cotman (1782-1842), who, like many artists, supplemented his meagre income from commissions by teaching.  Though Rigby became a notable writer, particularly on travel and art, she never referred to her former teacher.  And despite her success as a writer, she once told a friend that she preferred to paint. In 1849 she became Lady Eastlake on her marriage to the Royal Academician and Director of the National Gallery, London, Sir Charles Eastlake.<br><br><b>Ownership & Use</b><br>In 1831, when this portrait was drawn, Rigby was living with her mother at Framingham, south-east of Norwich, having returned from a two-year trip to Germany in 1829.  Portraiture, of course, was a favourite genre for many amateur artists. But, just as many well-to-do artistic women and men did before photography became a popular hobby, Rigby also recorded her travels in Britain and abroad.","physicalDescription":"Sketch of a young lady in a wide brimmed hat","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Eastlake, Elizabeth (Lady)","id":"A8782"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[{"text":"drawing","id":"x32498"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Pencil on paper","categories":[{"text":"Drawings","id":"THES48966"},{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AM7102"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"120 (VA)","id":"THES49226"},"free":"","case":"CA15","shelf":"","box":"6"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"drawing","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1831","earliest":"1831-01-01","latest":"1831-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"30.16","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"25.08","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: Registered Description; 01/01/1998 by KN","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Drawn by Elizabeth Rigby, later Lady Eastlake (born in Norfolk, Norwich 1809, died in London, 1893)","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Portrait sketch of a young lady seated, wearing a wide-brimmed hat decorated with ribbons","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1945</u>, London: HMSO, 1956."}],"production":"Signed and dated 1831","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"British Galleries:\nThis unknown sitter was drawn by Elizabeth Rigby, the daughter of a Norwich doctor, who began drawing at the age of 8. She was a pupil of the watercolourist John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) and became a prolific amateur artist and journalist. She married the professional painter Sir Charles Eastlake (1793-1865), who later became the first director of the National Gallery in London.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["E.1009-1945"],"accessionNumberNum":"1009","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1945,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LN2328","2019LP7838","2019LP2830","2019LV7321"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-25","recordCreationDate":"2003-03-27","availableToBook":false}}