Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, née Rigby, began her reviewing career in 1836 at the Foreign Quarterly Review and regularly contributed to the Quarterly Review. After a trip to Russia, she produced the travel memoir First Residence on the Shores of the Baltic (1841) as well as two works of fiction, The Jewess: a tale from the shores of the Baltic (1843) and the collection Livonian Tales (1846). She married the painter Sir Charles Eastlake in 1849 and collaborated with him thereafter on several treatises on art. Her numerous other writings on art included Five Great Painters (1883), and she collaborated with Anna Jameson on The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art (1864), the final volume of Jameson's four volume Sacred and Legendary Art. Eastlake's essay Photography, which argued against its inclusion among the fine arts, is one of the earliest commentaries on the medium. Her fluency in French, Italian, and German enabled her to translate several works by foreign art scholars and critics. Eastlake's publications helped popularize foreign art and literature for the nineteenth-century British public.