Edward Lear was a British 19th Century artist who was born in 1812. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Rienzi have featured Edward Lear's work in the past. Edward ...

Edward Lear is best known for his poems ranging from nonsense verse to the Owl and the Pussycat but he was also an ornithological artist. One of his biggest fans, Sir David Attenborough, has ...

At 18 he published an album of lithographic prints of those parrots, images of such graceful design and anatomical accuracy that Edward Stanley, the 13th Earl of Derby, invited Lear to draw and ...

Bird prints were quite easy to find in second-hand bookshops 50 years ago. They represented birds of all kinds – domestic as well as tropical, small and soberly coloured as well as extravagantly ...

This exhibition, titled Edward Lear: Watercolours and Words, combines 21 Maltese works by this highly lyrical artist in a unique setting, side by side with Lear’s unpublished diary entries ...

BEST known for his nonsense poems and limericks, Edward Lear considered himself first and foremost a painter. Now, as the bicentenary of his birth is about to be celebrated, two Oxford museums are ...

Anindyo Roy’s ‘The Viceroy’s Artist’ is a fictionalised, inner-world narrative of 19th-century artist and author Edward Lear Courtesy Anindyo Roy. The image of a tall, bearded gentleman from yore ...

Known for his nonsense poems — think the Pobble Who has No Toes — Edward Lear was also a gifted artist, whose works are collected in ‘The Natural History of Edward Lear.’ ...

Robert McCracken Peck's The Natural History of Edward Lear is, in part, a concise biography of the great Victorian artist, traveller and nonsense poet, but more particularly a celebration of Lear ...

Edward Lear is best known for his poems ranging from nonsense verse to the Owl and the Pussycat but he was also an ornithological artist. One of his biggest fans, Sir David Attenborough, has ...