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Edward Lear
English painter, printmaker & author
born 1818 - died 1888

Edward Lear was born in Holloway, London. Edward Lear father was a stockbroker and Edward Lear was brought up largely by his sister Ann. Edward Lear spent his early years first as a draughtsman for the Zoological Society, then as an artist for the British Museum.

In 1832 Edward Lear was employed by the Earl of Derby to make coloured drawings of the rare birds and animals in the menagerie at Knowsley Hall. The Earl also allowed Lear the means to travel widely. Edward Lear published accounts of his trips to Italy (1846), Albania and Illyria (1851), Calabria (1852), and Corsica (1870). Edward Lear also visited the Holy Land and Greece.

He is chiefly remembered for his nonsense poetry, the first volume of which was written for his patron's grandchildren in 1846 and was simply entitled A Book of Nonsense. It contained Lear's favourite poetic format, the limerick, and was illustrated throughout. His poetry was henceforth marked by an air of ludicrous fantasy, as well as a unique inventiveness.

A deep sense of sadness can also be traced in his nonsense verse. This melancholy was a reflection of the life of the writer, who, despite the support of friends such as Tennyson's wife Emily, suffered from depression and loneliness.- Bio Lear Edward oil painting, paintings reproductions art- Bio Lear Edward English oil painting reproductions art - reproduction oil paintings, oil painting reproduction of Lear Edward and art reproductions oil paintings Lear Edward.

Since his death, appreciation of his artistic work, the water-colours in particular, has risen. His real fame, however, was secured by poems from Nonsense Songs (1871) such as 'The Owl and the Pussycat'.

1812-1825
Edward Lear was born in Highgate, 12 May. Edward Lear was the twentieth child of Jeremiah Lear, a London stockbroker, and his wife Ann.
Four years after his birth, Jeremiah fell a defaulter in the Stock Exchange and the family had to abandon the fashionable life to which they were accustomed. Edward's upbringing was entrusted to his sister Ann, twenty-one years his senior, and Mrs Lear had nothing more to do with it. Young Edward certainly resented his mother's rejection, but found all the love Edward Lear needed in Ann.
He was first attacked by what Edward Lear called 'the Demon', epilepsy, when Edward Lear was five or six, and a few years later 'the Morbids', sudden changes of mood with bouts of acute depression, began.
His early education was completely left to Ann and Sarah, another sister: beside the typical tuition books of the age they read to him classical tales and modern poetry (the Romantic poets), and taught him to draw, especially natural subjects.
c.1826
Edward Lear Lear's father retires and as Edward Lear cannot provide for his children, Edward, who still lives with Ann, begins to earn his living as an artist.
1830
Edward Lear Starts work on Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots in June. The first two folios are published in November and immediately give him a reputation as an ornithological draughtsman; Edward Lear is nominated as an Associate of the Linnean Society. Lear in 1831
1831
Edward Lear Lear interrupts the series about the Psittacidae and begins a collaboration with John Gould (The Birds of Europe).
In October Edward Lear wrote in a letter to Charles Empson also containing a sketch of himself:

This is amazingly like; add only - that both my knees are fractured from being run over which has made them very peculiarly crooked - that my neck is singularly long, a most elephantine nose - & a disposition to tumble here & there - owing to being half blind, & you may very well imagine my tout ensemble. (Selected Letters, p. 16)- Bio Lear Edward oil painting, paintings reproductions art- Bio Lear Edward English oil painting reproductions art - reproduction oil paintings, oil painting reproduction of Lear Edward and art reproductions oil paintings Lear Edward.

1831 or 1832
Edward Lear Visits Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Berne, and Berlin with Gould.
1832
Edward Lear Lear starts drawing the animals in the menagerie of Knowsley Hall for Lord Stanley.
1835
Edward Lear Travels to Ireland with Edward Stanley, Bishop of Norwich, and his son Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, July-August. His interst turns to landscape painting.
1836
Edward Lear Walking tour in the Lake District, August-October. His eyesight and general health deteriorate.
1837
Edward Lear Sets out for Rome travelling via Belgium, Luxenburg, Germany, and Switzerland, July. Reaches Rome, December.
1838
Edward Lear Travels to southern Italy, May-August. Earliest oil painting, June.
1839
Edward Lear Walking tour towards Florence, May-October.
1841
Edward Lear Returns to England, spring. Publication of Views in Rome and its environs. Visits Scotland, September. Returns to Rome, December.
1842
Edward Lear Visits Sicily, April-May, and the Abruzzi, July-October.
1843
Edward Lear Returns to the Abruzzi, September-October.
1845
Edward Lear Meets Chichester Fortescue, April. Returns to England, May.
1846
Edward Lear Publication of Illustrated Excursions in Italy (2 vols.). Publication of first edition of A Book of Nonsense, using the pseudonym Derry Down Derry. Publication of Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall. Gives a series of twelve drawing lessons to Queen Victoria. Returns to Rome, December. - Bio Lear Edward oil painting, paintings reproductions art
1847
Edward Lear Visits Sicily and southern Calabria and witnesses outbursts of revolution, May-October.
1848
Edward Lear Meets Thomas Baring, later Lord Northbrook, February. The state of Italy becomes more unsettled, and Lear leaves Rome, April. Travels via Malta to Corfu and the Ionian Islands, April-May. Visits Athens, Marathon, Thermophylae, and Thebes, where Edward Lear is taken ill, June-July. Arrives in Costantinople, August. Travels across Greece and into Albania, September-December. Returns to Malta, and meets Fraanklin Lushington, December.
1849
Edward Lear Travels to Cairo, Suez, and Sinai, January-February. Returns to Malta, then sets out for southern Greece with F. Lushington, March. Travels in the Morea and visits Janina, Vale of Tempe, and Mount Olympus, March-July. Returns to England, July. Attends Sass's School of Art to prepare drawings for entrance to the Royal Academy Schools, November-December.
1850
Edward Lear Accepted as a probationer, January, and as a full student, April. First picture accepted by the Royal Academy. By November Edward Lear is working on his own again.
1851
Edward Lear Publication of Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, & c. Meets Alfred and Emely Tennyson.
1852
Edward Lear Introduced to Holman Hunt, who offers to teach him his own methods of painting, early summer. Lives with Hunt at Clive Vale, Hastings, and meets other members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, July-December. Edward Lear begins to gain confidence in oil painting, and conceives the plan of illustrating Tennyson's poems. Publication of Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria.
1853
Edward Lear Publication of the first of his musical settings of Tennyson's poems. Unable to cope any longer with the damp Englsh weather, Edward Lear leaves to spend the winter in Egypt, December.
1854
Edward Lear Travels up the Nile as far as the first cataract, January-March. Returns to England, then visits Switzerland, August-October.
1855
Edward Lear Publication of the second edition of A Book of Nonsense. Accompanies Lushington to Corfu for the winter. Spending most of his time alone, Edward Lear becomes lonely and depressed.
1856
Edward Lear Employs Giorgio Cocali, April. Travels via Albania and Greece to Mount Athos and Troy, August-October.
1857
Edward Lear Visits Albania, April. Returns to London for the summer, May, and to Corfu for the winter, November.
1858
Edward Lear Travels to Bethlehem, hebron, Petra, the Dead SEa, Jerusalem and Lebanon, March-June. Returns to England, August. Decides to winter in Rome.
1859
Edward Lear Returns to England in May, and spends most of the summer at St Leonards. Returns to Rome, December.
1860
Edward Lear To England, May. Begins work on large oil paintings of the Cedars of Lebanon and Masada at Oatlands Park Hotel, October.
1861
Edward Lear His sister Ann becomes ill, and dies 11 March. Visits Florence, May-August. Cedars of Lebanon exhibited in Liverpool and receives favourable reviews, September. Returns to winter again in Corfu, November. Publication of third edition of A Book of Nonsense under his own name, December.
1862
Edward Lear Cedars of Lebanon exhibited in the Great International Exhibition, March, but hung very high and not well received. Returns to England, May. leaves England for Corfu, November. Despite the increasing sales of the last ten years, Edward Lear now realizes that his chances of becoming established are diminishing, and Edward Lear works on his first group of Tyrants.
1863
Edward Lear Visits the other Ionian Islands, April-May. Returns to England, June. Publication of Views in the Seven Ionian Islands, December.
1864
Edward Lear Returns to Corfu, January. The island is ceded to the Greeks and Edward Lear leaves for Athens and Crete, April. In London, June-November. Decides to winter in southern France and leaves England. Finds rooms in Nice, November.
1865
Edward Lear Writes the first of his Nonsense stories, The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple, February.. Returns to England, April. Lady Waldergrave commissions a painting of Venice, and Edward Lear travels there, November. Decides to winter in Malta, December.- Bio Lear Edward oil painting, paintings reproductions art- Bio Lear Edward English oil painting reproductions art - reproduction oil paintings, oil painting reproduction of Lear Edward and art reproductions oil paintings Lear Edward.

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