Paintings of Landscapes Around the World by Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Hello Dear Steemit Friends ! Today I would like to present you one of the best watercolour painters of the nineteenth century Edward Lear – topographical watercolourist, landscape painter also in oils, illustrator, author and traveller.

'' The Marble Rocks - Nerbudda Jubbolpore '', oil on canvas , Yale Center for British Art , Image Source

Lear was born in 1812 as the youngest of twenty one children. In 1831 he found employment at the Zoological Gardens as a draughtsman, and in 1832 published the “Illustrations of the Family of the Psittacidae, or Parrots”, one of the earliest collections of coloured ornithological drawings made in England. Lear worked at Knowsley for the 13th Earl of Derby. There he met many of his aristocratic friends, and in 1846 came to give drawing lessons to Queen Victoria.

Dalmatian Pelican (Pelicanus crispus) , The Birds of Europe, vol. 5 , Image Source

Blue and Yellow Macaw , lithograph , Image Source

From 1837 Lear never again permanently lived in England. He worked throughout Italy, later travelled to Corsica, Malta, Greece, Turkey, the Ionian Isles, Egypt, Corfu, Syria, he spent his winters in Malta and Cannes , till finally he settled at San Remo where he died. His output of work was enormous – his “topographies” were always done in pencil on the actual site, and were often scribbled over with colour notes and dated. They were then inked in in sepia and brush washed with colour in the winter evenings.

'' The Capitol, from the Forum '', watercolour , Tate Britain - London , Image Source

'' Butrinto, Albania '', oil on canvas , Yale Center for British Art , Image Source

'' Zagori, Greece '', oil on canvas , Yale Center for British Art , Image Source

'' The Monastery of Simopetra on Mount Athos '', Watercolour and ink on paper , Tate Britain - London , Image Source

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